fix(api): keep consultation_workflow alive when API hours are floats

API birth payloads store hour/minute as floats, and datetime() rejected them
after sensitivity was wired into every consultation_workflow call.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

scripts/jyotish_api_server.py

@@ -2144,6 +2144,17 @@ def _join_foreground_vedastro(future, *, timeout: float) -> dict:
     return result if isinstance(result, dict) else _blocked_foreground_vedastro(reason='gateway_invocation_error')
 
 
+def _blocked_birth_time_sensitivity(*, error_type: str) -> dict:
+    return {
+        'schema': 'jyotish.report_birth_time_sensitivity.v1',
+        'status': 'not_applicable',
+        'availability': 'not_available',
+        'blocked': True,
+        'reason': 'birth_time_sensitivity_unavailable',
+        'error_type': error_type,
+    }
+
+
 def execute_consultation_workflow(
     handler,
     *,
@@ -2158,8 +2169,10 @@ def execute_consultation_workflow(
     sensitivity_args = type('BirthTimeSensitivityArgs', (), birth_payload)()
     try:
         birth_time_sensitivity = _load_local_module('jyotish_engine')._build_birth_time_sensitivity(sensitivity_args)
-    except ValueError as exc:
-        raise BadRequest(str(exc)) from exc
+    except BadRequest:
+        raise
+    except Exception as exc:
+        birth_time_sensitivity = _blocked_birth_time_sensitivity(error_type=type(exc).__name__)
     themes = handler._high_rigor_requested_themes(body)
     events = handler._high_rigor_events(body)
     question = body.get('question') or ''

scripts/jyotish_engine.py

@@ -9749,7 +9749,14 @@ def _birth_time_string(hour, minute, second=0):
 
 
 def _birth_datetime_from_args(args):
-    return datetime(args.year, args.month, args.day, args.hour, args.minute, _arg_second(args))
+    return datetime(
+        int(args.year),
+        int(args.month),
+        int(args.day),
+        int(args.hour),
+        int(args.minute),
+        _arg_second(args),
+    )
 
 
 def _compute_chart_from_args(args):

scripts/run_quality_gate.py

@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ CORE_PYTEST_TARGETS = [
     "tests/test_api_heavy_compute_gate.py",
     # Upstream-sync acceptance regressions must fail the automatic staging gate.
     "tests/test_consultation_workflow_domains.py",
+    # Float hour/minute from the API payload must not 500 consultation_workflow (BUG-524).
+    "tests/test_consultation_workflow_birth_time_sensitivity.py",
     "tests/test_mcp_strict_workflow_finance.py",
     "tests/test_interpretation_template_registry.py",
     "tests/test_vedastro_external_technique_evidence.py",