From 76e52abe92fdce21c4488cc250c80c48d5c63668 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kert <kert@rack.localdomain>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:07:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(llm): stack llm tag --max-tags default is 3, matching the
 tagger and eval-tags (refs #577)

---
 docs/docs/cli/llm-tag.md | 2 +-
 src/cli/llm.py           | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/docs/cli/llm-tag.md b/docs/docs/cli/llm-tag.md
index e08c067..e4a41f3 100644
--- a/docs/docs/cli/llm-tag.md
+++ b/docs/docs/cli/llm-tag.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Usage: stack llm tag [OPTIONS]
 │                                     judging.                                 │
 │                                     [default: 8]                             │
 │    --max-tags              INTEGER  Most themes written per comment.         │
-│                                     [default: 4]                             │
+│                                     [default: 3]                             │
 │    --min-confidence        FLOAT    Shortlist similarity below which a       │
 │                                     judged yes is not written.               │
 │                                     [default: 0.0]                           │
diff --git a/src/cli/llm.py b/src/cli/llm.py
index eea5ccc..51e9c6e 100644
--- a/src/cli/llm.py
+++ b/src/cli/llm.py
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ def tag(
         8, "--top", help="Themes shortlisted per comment before judging."
     ),
     max_tags: int = typer.Option(
-        4, "--max-tags", help="Most themes written per comment."
+        3, "--max-tags", help="Most themes written per comment."
     ),
     min_confidence: float = typer.Option(
         0.0,