Integrated terminal can't see global npm packages

[d0rich]

Type: Bug

I can't run any globally installed npm packages (like yarn) in the vscode integrated powershell terminal. That's also a reason why all my attempts to run npm scripts from the package.json fail.

Every time this error:

yarn : The term 'yarn' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable progr
am. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try aga
in.
At line:1 char:1
+ yarn --version
+ ~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (yarn:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

The most interesting part: if I try to do the same somewhere outside of vscode (eg windows terminal), it works fine. Additionally, an hour ago yarn worked inside vscode, and I don't remember anything, that could affect it.

VS Code version: Code 1.95.3 (f1a4fb1, 2024-11-13T14:50:04.152Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100
Modes:

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS with Radeon 780M Graphics (16 x 3793)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	15.19GB (4.56GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id a4c9f7ee-a0f4-4ab3-9046-9656fcfb8b7e
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

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eno	Wsc	2.3.53
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[d0rich]

Update: it was somehow solved itself, but it still would be nice to know how to act in such situations