Reproduced on the personalized playlist pipeline: selecting Fresh Tape
(or any kind) and running the automation surfaced
"Working outside of application context" in the UI.
Root cause: `get_current_profile_id` reads Flask's `g.profile_id` and
only catches `AttributeError`. Outside a request — automation engine,
sync threads, watchlist scanner — `g` raises `RuntimeError` instead,
so the except misses and the handler dies.
Mirrored playlist pipeline never hit this because it hardcodes
profile_id=1 in its sync call. The personalized pipeline calls
`deps.get_current_profile_id()` from a background thread, which is
what tripped the bug. Fresh Tape's generator also resolves the
profile via the same function — same path, same crash.
Fix: broaden the except to `(AttributeError, RuntimeError)` in all
three copies of the helper (`web_server.py`, `core/artists/map.py`,
`core/discovery/hero.py`). All three now safely degrade to profile_id=1
(admin profile) when called outside a request context — matches the
existing intent that single-admin installs Just Work.
No test changes — the existing pipeline tests stub the helper, so
they never exercised the bug. The fix is in the layer above the
stubs.
Body byte-identical to the original. Spotify proxy via registry,
_get_active_discovery_source and get_current_profile_id redefined
as stateless shims, _get_metadata_fallback_client injected via init()
because it composes multiple registry helpers wired in web_server.py.
web_server.py: 35753 → 35586 (-167 lines).
