diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.tsx
index 95c3a5b0..d3a42483 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ChannelTags.tsx
@@ -117,7 +117,12 @@ function SuggestedChipsLane({
     decide: (g) =>
       fitChipsWithPill({ chipRights: g.chipRights, pillW: g.pillW, avail: g.avail, gap: g.gap }),
   });
-  const hidden = suggestions.length - visible;
+  // Clamped, and not defensively: `useChipOverflowFit` keeps `visible` in state and re-decides in a
+  // layout effect, so the render in which the chip set SHRINKS still holds the previous measurement
+  // and a raw subtraction goes negative. An unclamped `hidden` slips past the `=== 0` reset below —
+  // the flag survives exactly the window it exists to close, and the popover springs back on the
+  // next re-fit.
+  const hidden = Math.max(0, suggestions.length - visible);
 
   // Open only while there is a "+N" trigger to anchor it — derived, not closed by an effect, so the
   // frame in which the last collapsed chip fits again cannot also hold a menu pointing at a
@@ -345,7 +350,12 @@ export function ChannelTagsControl({
       fitChipsWithPill({ chipRights: g.chipRights, pillW: g.pillW, avail: g.avail, gap: g.gap }),
   });
 
-  const hidden = attached.length - visible;
+  // Clamped, and not defensively: `useChipOverflowFit` keeps `visible` in state and re-decides in a
+  // layout effect, so the render in which the chip set SHRINKS still holds the previous measurement
+  // and a raw subtraction goes negative. An unclamped `hidden` slips past the `=== 0` reset below —
+  // the flag survives exactly the window it exists to close, and the popover springs back on the
+  // next re-fit.
+  const hidden = Math.max(0, attached.length - visible);
 
   const [editorOpen, setEditorOpen] = useState(false);
   const editPop = useAnchoredPopover({
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Scheduler.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Scheduler.dom.test.tsx
index c8d63ad8..512d1980 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Scheduler.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Scheduler.dom.test.tsx
@@ -80,11 +80,13 @@ afterEach(() => {
 const intervalBox = () => screen.queryByRole("spinbutton", { name: "" });
 const batchBox = () => screen.getByLabelText("scheduler.maintenance.batchLabel");
 
-// The four tests below are CHARACTERIZATION, not regression guards for E27 S2: the old JobRow's
-// re-sync effect was already guarded by `if (!editing)` and the mirror only rendered while editing,
-// so every one of them passes against the pre-sweep code too. They are here because the editor had
-// no tests at all. The editor that genuinely lost the user's typing to a poll is the maintenance
-// batch box below — its old effect had no guard — and that one has its own test.
+// The FIRST FOUR tests below are CHARACTERIZATION, not regression guards for E27 S2: the old
+// JobRow's re-sync effect was already guarded by `if (!editing)` and the mirror only rendered while
+// editing, so each of those four passes against the pre-sweep code too. They are here because the
+// editor had no tests at all. The two after them — the range refusal and the focus return — ARE
+// regression guards, for the silent-discard fix, and they fail against the code this file shipped
+// with. The editor that genuinely lost the user's typing to a poll is the maintenance batch box
+// below: its old effect had no guard, and that one has its own test.
 describe("Scheduler · the job interval editor", () => {
   it("opens on the current interval and commits a new one", async () => {
     const update = vi.spyOn(api, "updateSchedulerJob").mockResolvedValue(undefined as never);
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/TagFilterChips.dom.test.tsx b/frontend/src/components/TagFilterChips.dom.test.tsx
index 9782c8d9..926c067e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/TagFilterChips.dom.test.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/TagFilterChips.dom.test.tsx
@@ -66,6 +66,29 @@ describe("TagFilterChips — the overflow menu", () => {
     expect(moreBtn()).toHaveProperty("ariaExpanded", "false");
   });
 
+  it("does not come back when the chip set SHRINKS under the open menu", () => {
+    // The nastier half of the same bug. `useChipOverflowFit` holds `visible` in state and re-decides
+    // in a layout effect, so the render in which the set shrinks still carries the PREVIOUS
+    // measurement — `chips.length - visible` goes negative there, and a `hidden === 0` guard reading
+    // an unclamped value never fires. The flag then survives the one window it exists to close.
+    const four = [...chips, chip("delta")];
+    fit.visible = 1;
+    const { rerender } = render(<TagFilterChips chips={four} />);
+    fireEvent.click(moreBtn()!);
+    expect(menu()).toBeTruthy();
+
+    // Three tags are deleted in the tag manager. `visible` is still the stale 3.
+    fit.visible = 3;
+    rerender(<TagFilterChips chips={[chip("alpha"), chip("beta")]} />);
+    expect(menu()).toBeNull();
+
+    // …and now the layout effect lands: two long names, only one fits.
+    fit.visible = 1;
+    rerender(<TagFilterChips chips={[chip("alpha"), chip("beta")]} />);
+    expect(menu()).toBeNull();
+    expect(moreBtn()).toHaveProperty("ariaExpanded", "false");
+  });
+
   it("still opens and closes on the trigger", () => {
     render(<TagFilterChips chips={chips} />);
     fireEvent.click(moreBtn()!);
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/TagFilterChips.tsx b/frontend/src/components/TagFilterChips.tsx
index d4e9359b..c9ba083e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/TagFilterChips.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/TagFilterChips.tsx
@@ -58,7 +58,12 @@ export default function TagFilterChips({
       fitChipsWithPill({ chipRights: g.chipRights, pillW: g.pillW, avail: g.avail, gap: g.gap }),
   });
 
-  const hidden = chips.length - visible;
+  // Clamped, and not defensively: `useChipOverflowFit` keeps `visible` in state and re-decides in a
+  // layout effect, so the render in which the chip set SHRINKS still holds the previous measurement
+  // and a raw subtraction goes negative. An unclamped `hidden` slips past the `=== 0` reset below —
+  // the flag survives exactly the window it exists to close, and the popover springs back on the
+  // next re-fit.
+  const hidden = Math.max(0, chips.length - visible);
   // The popover can only be open while there is a "+N" trigger to anchor it. Derived rather than
   // closed by an effect, so the frame in which the last overflowing chip fits again cannot also
   // contain a menu hanging off a reference that is already gone.