nrepo tag

nrepo tag <id> <tags...>            # add tags to one idea
nrepo tag add <tag> --ids <ids>     # add one tag to many ideas
nrepo tag remove <tag> --ids <ids>  # remove one tag from many ideas

Options

Flag	Type	Default	Description
--ids <ids>	string	—	Comma-separated idea IDs. Required for add and remove.
--json	boolean	false	Output as JSON.
--human	boolean	—	Force human-readable output. Wins over --json.

Add tags to one idea

nrepo tag 391 ui frontend

✓ #42 tags: auth, security, ui, frontend

The tags are merged with what is already there, so this form only ever adds. The echoed list is the full set after the merge.

Caution

This form reads the idea, unions the tags, and writes the whole list back. If something else tags the same idea in between — the auto-tagging pass on a fresh capture, for instance — that tag is overwritten. On an idea you have just pushed, wait a few seconds or use tag add instead, which adds server-side.

There is no single-idea removal form. To take one tag off one idea, use the bulk form with a single ID:

nrepo tag remove frontend --ids 391

Add or remove across many ideas

nrepo tag add priority-high --ids 391,402,417

  ✓ #391
  ✓ #402
  ✗ #417  Idea 417 not found
2 tagged with "priority-high", 1 errors

remove prints the same shape, ending 2 untagged "deprecated", 0 errors. Removing a tag an idea does not have is not an error — it simply does nothing for that idea.

Caution

Bulk tagging is not atomic: one result line per ID, and a failure part-way through leaves the earlier ideas changed. Check the trailing counts or the results array.

Both bulk forms accept at most 50 IDs per call; a longer list returns 400 Maximum 50 ideas per bulk update. The per-idea lines print the ID you passed, not the display number.

--json returns the bulk response:

{
  "updated": 2,
  "errors": 1,
  "results": [
    { "id": 391, "status": "updated" },
    { "id": 402, "status": "updated" },
    { "id": 417, "status": "error", "error": "Idea 417 not found" }
  ]
}

Limits and cleanup

Limit	Value
Tags per idea	20
Tag name length	50 characters
IDs per bulk call	50

A tag that ends up on no ideas is deleted automatically after a bulk change, so removing the last use of a tag also removes it from the tag list.

Note

Running nrepo tag with no arguments at all prints nothing and exits 0 — it is not an error and not a help screen. Use nrepo tag --help for usage.

Next Steps

Tags How tags are stored and shared, and what auto-tagging adds to an untagged capture.

nrepo log Filter by tag, and build the ID list for a bulk tag change.

nrepo move The other bulk editor — same 50-ID cap, same per-idea results.

nrepo push Tag an idea as you capture it with a repeatable --tag flag.