diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml b/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml
index ce48fa3..8021207 100644
--- a/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -44,7 +44,10 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Install Python deps
-        run: pip install -r requirements.txt pytest pytest-asyncio "ruff>=0.9,<1.0"
+        # ruff is pre-installed in the python-ci runner image (see
+        # CI-Runner/CI-python/Dockerfile's RUFF_VERSION). Per FabledRulebook
+        # forgejo.md, toolchain versions live on the runner image, not here.
+        run: pip install -r requirements.txt pytest pytest-asyncio
 
       - name: Ruff lint
         run: ruff check backend/ tests/ alembic/
diff --git a/ruff.toml b/ruff.toml
index 79bdb97..b8603a4 100644
--- a/ruff.toml
+++ b/ruff.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
-target-version = "py313"
-# Note: runtime is Python 3.14, but the python-ci runner image ships
-# ruff 0.9.7 which only knows target-version up to py313. Bumping the
-# runner image's RUFF_VERSION to 0.13+ would let us flip this back to
-# py314; until then py313 is the highest ruff accepts here. Code still
-# runs on 3.14; we just don't get UP suggestions for 3.14-only optimizations.
+target-version = "py314"
 line-length = 100
 
 [lint]