diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 05dcd0d..7bd51f6 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -587,7 +587,12 @@ and `Product.excerpt_sentences()` both consume the module-level
 
 Phase 2 (shipped): deterministic title-plus-description auto-tagger
 in `lib/tag_suggest.py`. Title tokens weight × 3, description × 1
-(capped at 100 unique tokens per product). Pipeline: tokenize →
+(`DESCRIPTION_TOKEN_CAP=400` unique tokens per product — raised from
+100 because long teaching-resource descriptions truncated
+cross-cutting words like `holiday`/`seasonal` before they were
+counted). Returns up to `DEFAULT_TOP_N=500` clusters (raised from
+100 — large catalogues had real groups ranking past the cut).
+Pipeline: tokenize →
 ~200-word English + per-shop stopwords → suffix-strip stem →
 form **bigrams** from adjacent non-stopword tokens (`write room`,
 `first grade`, `valentine day` — phrases get 2× unigram weight) →
@@ -602,7 +607,8 @@ count desc → label = most frequent original word/phrase. Returns
 cluster (`action=apply_suggestion` / `action=dismiss_suggestion`).
 URL knobs: `?max_share=0.3` (stricter shop-vocab cut), `?max_share=1`
 (disable), `?min_title=0.5` (stricter title-required), `?min_title=0`
-(disable), `?bigrams=0` (disable phrases), `?top_n=200` (show more).
+(disable), `?bigrams=0` (disable phrases), `?top_n=N` (show more;
+default 500, clamped ≤5000).
 CLI: `python -m make_post_sell.scripts.backfill_tags
 data/development.ini --shop=<id> [--max-share=0.4]
 [--min-title-share=0.3] [--no-bigrams] [--apply]`. **Never
diff --git a/docs/tickets/mps-24.md b/docs/tickets/mps-24.md
index 6865539..49e436d 100644
--- a/docs/tickets/mps-24.md
+++ b/docs/tickets/mps-24.md
@@ -363,6 +363,20 @@ Tests (`test_functional.py::TestProductTagsSpa`):
 Deferred (occasional click, not the hot path): AJAX-ifying the
 "Suggest categories" link — still a full navigation by design.
 
+**Phase 2.8k — auto-suggest: way more, stop missing `holiday`**
+(shipped 2026-05-16): operator: "100 suggested tags is not enough, we
+need way more — missing holiday holidays". Two `100` caps in
+`lib/tag_suggest.py`: `DESCRIPTION_TOKEN_CAP` 100 → **400** (long
+teaching-resource descriptions truncated cross-cutting words like
+`holiday`/`holidays`/`seasonal` before they were ever counted —
+verified neither word is a stopword) and `DEFAULT_TOP_N` 100 → **500**
+(481-product catalogue had valid groups ranking past the cut; the
+min_products / max_share / min_title_share filters already strip
+noise, so a high ceiling surfaces the long tail safely). `?top_n=`
+URL clamp raised 500 → 5000 for headroom. Both caps stay bounded
+(deduped unique tokens / no unbounded query — CWE-407-safe). Test:
+`test_deep_description_word_surfaces_after_cap_raise`.
+
 **Phase 2.8j — drop redundant tag-detail header** (shipped
 2026-05-16): operator: remove the tag title + "← All products" from
 the top of the tag SERP. With the always-on chip strip (active
diff --git a/make_post_sell/lib/tag_suggest.py b/make_post_sell/lib/tag_suggest.py
index b85574d..a0d7d18 100644
--- a/make_post_sell/lib/tag_suggest.py
+++ b/make_post_sell/lib/tag_suggest.py
@@ -16,10 +16,14 @@ import re
 from collections import Counter, defaultdict
 
 
-# Word count cap per product for the description side of the input, to
-# stop a long blog post from drowning the catalog signal. Title is never
-# capped (titles are short by construction).
-DESCRIPTION_TOKEN_CAP = 100
+# Unique-token cap per product for the description side of the input,
+# to stop a single long blog post from drowning the catalog signal.
+# Title is never capped (titles are short by construction).
+# Raised 100 → 400: on long teaching-resource descriptions the old cap
+# truncated cross-cutting words like "holiday"/"holidays"/"seasonal"
+# before they were ever counted, so those categories never surfaced.
+# Still bounded (deduped unique tokens per product) — CWE-407-safe.
+DESCRIPTION_TOKEN_CAP = 400
 
 # Title weight relative to description; tokens from the title count this
 # many times when scoring stem frequency per product.
@@ -31,9 +35,13 @@ DESCRIPTION_WEIGHT = 1
 DEFAULT_MIN_PRODUCTS = 2
 
 # Default cap on how many candidate clusters we return per call.
-# Set generously — large catalogues (printableprompts has 481) carry many
-# valid niche categories beyond the obvious top 20.
-DEFAULT_TOP_N = 100
+# Large catalogues (printableprompts has 481) carry many valid niche
+# categories — at 100 the operator was missing real groups like
+# "holiday"/"holidays" that ranked past the cut. Set high; the
+# downstream filters (min_products, max_share, min_title_share) already
+# remove noise, so a generous ceiling surfaces the long tail without
+# resurfacing junk. Operator can still narrow via ?top_n=.
+DEFAULT_TOP_N = 500
 
 # A stem appearing in more than this fraction of products is treated as
 # **shop vocabulary** — words the operator uses to describe everything
diff --git a/make_post_sell/tests/test_models.py b/make_post_sell/tests/test_models.py
index ab36d03..e3bc30a 100644
--- a/make_post_sell/tests/test_models.py
+++ b/make_post_sell/tests/test_models.py
@@ -5278,6 +5278,40 @@ class TestTagSuggestPureFunctions(unittest.TestCase):
         for c in clusters:
             self.assertGreaterEqual(len(c["product_ids"]), 2)
 
+    def test_deep_description_word_surfaces_after_cap_raise(self):
+        """Operator: 'missing holiday holidays'. On long teaching-resource
+        descriptions a cross-cutting word that appears AFTER the first
+        100 unique description tokens used to be truncated by
+        DESCRIPTION_TOKEN_CAP and never clustered. With the cap raised
+        (400) it now surfaces."""
+        from types import SimpleNamespace
+        from ..lib.tag_suggest import suggest_clusters, DESCRIPTION_TOKEN_CAP
+        self.assertGreaterEqual(DESCRIPTION_TOKEN_CAP, 400)
+        # 150 unique filler tokens, THEN the signal word near the end —
+        # past the old 100 cap, within the new 400 cap.
+        filler = " ".join("filler%d" % i for i in range(150))
+        products = [
+            SimpleNamespace(
+                id="a", title="Addition Pack",
+                description=filler + " holiday holiday season fun",
+            ),
+            SimpleNamespace(
+                id="b", title="Counting Pack",
+                description=filler + " holiday holiday season fun",
+            ),
+        ]
+        clusters, _ = suggest_clusters(
+            products,
+            stopwords=[],
+            existing_tag_slugs=[],
+            min_products=2,
+            max_share=1.0,
+            min_title_share=0.0,   # description-only word
+            bigrams=False,
+        )
+        labels = [c["label"].lower() for c in clusters]
+        self.assertIn("holiday", labels)
+
     def test_suggest_clusters_skips_existing_tags(self):
         from types import SimpleNamespace
         from ..lib.tag_suggest import suggest_clusters
diff --git a/make_post_sell/views/shop.py b/make_post_sell/views/shop.py
index cc7991d..32d4732 100644
--- a/make_post_sell/views/shop.py
+++ b/make_post_sell/views/shop.py
@@ -2496,7 +2496,10 @@ def shop_tags(request):
                 return default
             return max(lo, min(hi, v))
 
-        def _int_param(name, default, lo=1, hi=500):
+        # Only used for ?top_n=. Ceiling raised 500 → 5000 so the
+        # operator has real headroom above DEFAULT_TOP_N (500) on huge
+        # catalogues; still bounded (no unbounded query / DoS).
+        def _int_param(name, default, lo=1, hi=5000):
             raw = (request.params.get(name) or "").strip()
             if not raw:
                 return default