diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dee2b85..76f013d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,22 +11,22 @@ This reads codes from email; it does not generate them (that is `pyotp`'s job).
 `requirements.txt`:
 
 ```
-aiomail @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiomail.git@v0.1.9
+aiomail @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiomail.git@v0.1.10
 # OAuth token providers (Microsoft / Google) need the extra:
-aiomail[oauth] @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiomail.git@v0.1.9
+aiomail[oauth] @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiomail.git@v0.1.10
 ```
 
 Direct:
 
 ```bash
-pip install "aiomail @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiomail.git@v0.1.9"
-pip install "aiomail[oauth] @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiomail.git@v0.1.9"
+pip install "aiomail @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiomail.git@v0.1.10"
+pip install "aiomail[oauth] @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiomail.git@v0.1.10"
 ```
 
 Requires `aioimaplib` and `beautifulsoup4` (pulled transitively). The `oauth`
 extra adds `aiohttp` for the refresh-token providers.
 
-Drop the `@v0.1.9` suffix from the line above to install the latest unpinned.
+Drop the `@v0.1.10` suffix from the line above to install the latest unpinned.
 
 ## Password auth
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6b20099..7ae60a2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "aiomail"
-version = "0.1.9"
+version = "0.1.10"
 description = "async IMAP one-time-code retrieval with password/OAuth2 auth and dynamic matching"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
diff --git a/src/aiomail/__init__.py b/src/aiomail/__init__.py
index 390b6ed..00d67d5 100644
--- a/src/aiomail/__init__.py
+++ b/src/aiomail/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
-"""aiomail - async IMAP one-time-code retrieval, password or OAuth2 auth, dynamic matching. see README."""
+"""aiomail - async IMAP one-time-code retrieval, password or OAuth2 auth, dynamic matching.
+
+facade over auth (PasswordAuth/OAuth2Auth), IMAPClient (connection lifecycle), and
+retrieve_otp (folder-scan orchestration); see each module's docstring for detail.
+
+footguns: an IMAPClient instance is not safe for concurrent callers beyond its internal
+connect/reconnect lock; sequence-number ids from before a reconnect are invalid after
+(pass use_uid=True if ids must survive one); credentials are always caller-supplied via
+an injected Auth, never read from config.
+"""
 from .auth import Auth, OAuth2Auth, PasswordAuth
 from .client import IMAPClient
 from .extract import (
@@ -26,4 +35,4 @@ __all__ = [
     "DEFAULT_FOLDERS",
 ]
 
-__version__ = "0.1.9"
+__version__ = "0.1.10"
diff --git a/src/aiomail/client.py b/src/aiomail/client.py
index 20c0e71..5932139 100644
--- a/src/aiomail/client.py
+++ b/src/aiomail/client.py
@@ -24,12 +24,7 @@ _LIST_RE = re.compile(rb'^\([^)]*\)\s+(?:"[^"]*"|NIL)\s+(.+)$')
 
 
 def _folder_name(raw: bytes) -> Optional[str]:
-    """extract the folder name from a LIST reply line, delimiter-agnostic
-
-    returns None (not a last-token rsplit fallback) on a non-matching line, so the
-    tagged completion line aioimaplib appends (e.g. `b"LIST completed."`) is dropped
-    instead of read as a phantom folder.
-    """
+    """extract the folder name from a LIST reply line, or None on no match"""
     match = _LIST_RE.match(raw.strip())
     if not match:
         return None
@@ -102,8 +97,7 @@ class IMAPClient:
 
     @staticmethod
     async def _discard_mail(mail) -> None:
-        """tear down a half-built IMAP4 without leaking its fire-and-forget connect task (avoids an
-        asyncio "Task exception was never retrieved" traceback)"""
+        """tear down a half-built IMAP4 without leaking its fire-and-forget connect task"""
         task = getattr(mail, "_client_task", None)
         if task is not None and not task.done():
             task.cancel()
diff --git a/src/aiomail/retrieve.py b/src/aiomail/retrieve.py
index 86fda50..8e0167d 100644
--- a/src/aiomail/retrieve.py
+++ b/src/aiomail/retrieve.py
@@ -23,11 +23,7 @@ DEFAULT_FOLDERS: Sequence[str] = ("INBOX", "Junk", "Spam", "Archive", "All Mail"
 
 
 def _server_query(sender: MatchSpec, subject: MatchSpec, match_field: str = "from") -> str:
-    """build a narrowing IMAP query from plain-string specs, falling back to ALL for regex/callable specs
-
-    `match_field="to"` searches TO OR FROM (a forwarded code may keep the original
-    From) so the server query never narrows out a result the client would accept.
-    """
+    """build a narrowing IMAP query from plain-string specs, falling back to ALL for regex/callable specs"""
     parts: List[str] = []
     if isinstance(sender, str):
         if match_field == "to":