diff --git a/pql-requirements.md b/pql-requirements.md
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+++ b/pql-requirements.md
@@ -15,28 +15,34 @@ SQLite-backed ticket CLI + markdown-decisions-sync onto pql. Scale: **1013 ticke
 dependency edges, 48 labels, 16 history rows; **358 decision records** (237 D / 109 Q / 12 R)
 with 1040 cross-refs; a ~4385-file markdown vault (decisions, docs, 22 workshops, ~3500 wiki pages).
 
-pql is a strong fit and most of our system maps cleanly. The items below are the gaps we hit.
-Each lists **why we need it**, a **suggested shape**, and a **priority**. Where we have a viable
-workaround, it's noted — but the workaround is friction we'd rather not ship.
+pql is a strong fit and most of our system maps cleanly — unsurprisingly, since **pql was
+developed off the lessons of this repo's planning structures** (the SQLite ticket+decision
+schema, the `decisions/` domain split, the kanban/`whats-next` flow). The enums, the DQR tree,
+and the kanban model match almost exactly; pql's deliberate departures (TEXT ids over our
+integer ids, a git-tracked text changelog over our binary-DB-plus-backup ritual, and *no*
+milestone entity) are the productized lessons. So the items below are best read as **feedback to
+a descendant**, not gaps in a foreign tool — and a few are deliberate simplifications we should
+adopt rather than ask pql to re-add. Each lists **why**, a **suggested shape**, and a
+**priority**; viable workarounds are noted.
 
 ---
 
-## 1. Seeded / explicit ticket IDs + id-counter advance — **CRITICAL**
+## 1. Seeded / explicit ticket IDs + id-counter advance — **RESOLVED (non-issue)**
 
-**Why.** Our 1013 tickets have integer ids referenced as `#440` in thousands of immutable git
-commits, in decision "Ticket: #N" lines, and by our PR automation. We need the pql id to preserve
-the number — `T-440 ≡ old #440` — so the mapping stays a trivial bijection. pql's `id` is a TEXT
-column, so we can seed `'T-440'` directly into the changelog. **But `pql ticket new` auto-assigns
-`T-N` sequentially starting at `T-1`** — after seeding `T-1…T-1013`, the next native create would
-mint `T-1` and collide.
+**Why it looked critical.** Our 1013 tickets have integer ids referenced as `#440` in thousands of
+immutable git commits, in decision "Ticket: #N" lines, and by PR automation. We need the pql id to
+preserve the number — `T-440 ≡ old #440`. The fear was that, since `pql ticket new` has no `--id`
+flag and auto-assigns `T-N` sequentially, a post-seed native create would mint `T-1` and collide.
 
-**Suggested shape.**
-- `pql ticket new --id T-1014` (accept an explicit id), AND/OR
-- on `pql plan rebuild`/import, **advance the internal id counter past the max existing id** so
-  native creates never recycle a seeded id.
+**Why it's actually fine** (verified against pql 1.6.2). Bulk seeding goes through **direct-INSERT
+into `pql.db` + `pql plan export`**, not `ticket new`. And pql's id counter is derived from
+`max(id)` — exactly the behaviour our own integer-id CLI had. After seeding `T-1…T-1021`, the next
+`pql ticket new` minted **T-1022**, not T-1. No collision, no recycling, no held creation. The
+`--id` gap only bites the (rare) case of hand-creating a *specific* id via the CLI — irrelevant to
+a bulk numbered migration.
 
-**Workaround.** None safe — we'd have to hold all native ticket creation until this lands, or
-hand-manage a sentinel. This is the one true blocker for a clean numbered migration.
+**Optional nicety (low priority).** A `pql ticket new --id T-1022` flag would still be convenient
+for the occasional manual back-fill, but it is **not** required for a clean migration.
 
 ---
 
@@ -154,13 +160,19 @@ queries / rollups), or offer an optional lightweight milestone entity (M:N ticke
 ordering, done/total rollups) for projects that actually use phase gating. We'd only need the latter
 if we later adopt real cross-phase dependency gating.
 
+**Lineage note.** pql dropping the milestone entity that this very repo carried is almost certainly
+*deliberate* — it productized the lesson that our milestone subsystem was vestigial. So this is less
+a gap than a confirmation: labels-as-milestones is the right call, and our migration adopts it
+(active milestone → `phase:4`, the completed one → `milestone:process-rewire`). Documenting the
+pattern (point 1 above) is the only ask.
+
 ---
 
 ## Summary
 
 | # | Requirement | Priority | Have workaround? |
 |---|-------------|----------|------------------|
-| 1 | Seeded/explicit ticket id + counter-advance | **Critical** | No (real blocker) |
+| 1 | Seeded/explicit ticket id (`--id` flag) | ~~Critical~~ **Resolved** | N/A — direct-INSERT + max-id counter already works |
 | 2 | Duplicate-ID detection in sync/validate | High | Yes (keep our checker) |
 | 3 | `core.hooksPath` awareness | High | Yes (manual fold-in) |
 | 4 | Documented changelog seed format + hash algo | High | Partial |