diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1a372df..fc3492a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,16 +13,16 @@ send to the core — inheriting rotation, proxy, retry, and result for free.
 ## Install
 
 ```
-aiowebhooks @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiowebhooks.git@v0.1.7
+aiowebhooks @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiowebhooks.git@v0.1.8
 # discord embeds / identity helpers need the extra:
-aiowebhooks[discord] @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiowebhooks.git@v0.1.7
+aiowebhooks[discord] @ git+ssh://git@git.rethinkstudios.io/rethink-public/aiowebhooks.git@v0.1.8
 ```
 
 The base pulls `aiohttp` and `commons` (for the retry/backoff engine). Only
 `aiowebhooks[discord]` adds `discord.py` (>=2.3, mainline, not discord.py-self), and
 only for `DiscordWebhook`.
 
-Drop the `@v0.1.7` suffix from the line above to install the latest unpinned.
+Drop the `@v0.1.8` suffix from the line above to install the latest unpinned.
 
 ## Core sender
 
@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@ Without the extra installed, importing `aiowebhooks` still works; constructing o
 
 ## Changelog
 
+### v0.1.8
+
+- Compressed 5 residual internal/trivial docstrings (`MAX_RETRY_AFTER`, `_Retryable`,
+  `_proxy_string`, `_retry_after`, `_attempt`) to one or two lines; no behavior change.
+
 ### v0.1.7
 
 - Docstrings/comments compressed (module docstrings and internal-method prose); no
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f74c5c4..5fe6965 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "aiowebhooks"
-version = "0.1.7"
+version = "0.1.8"
 description = "async webhook sender (aiohttp) with round-robin urls, retry, and proxy rotation; optional discord.py embeds"
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
diff --git a/src/aiowebhooks/__init__.py b/src/aiowebhooks/__init__.py
index 90c7176..58a05ab 100644
--- a/src/aiowebhooks/__init__.py
+++ b/src/aiowebhooks/__init__.py
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ from .sender import Webhook
 
 __all__ = ["Webhook", "WebhookResult", "WebhookError", "NoUrlsError"]
 
-__version__ = "0.1.7"
+__version__ = "0.1.8"
diff --git a/src/aiowebhooks/sender.py b/src/aiowebhooks/sender.py
index 9ae71bb..30a5b18 100644
--- a/src/aiowebhooks/sender.py
+++ b/src/aiowebhooks/sender.py
@@ -21,16 +21,11 @@ from .result import WebhookResult
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 MAX_RETRY_AFTER = 300.0
-"""ceiling (seconds) honored from a server-controlled 429 retry_after/Retry-After
-
-guards against an arbitrarily large or non-finite wait (inf/nan, or a ms-vs-s unit
-mismatch) stalling a send() past its ClientTimeout. non-finite values are rejected
-outright; finite values are clamped to this ceiling.
-"""
+"""ceiling (seconds) honored from a 429 retry_after/Retry-After; non-finite values (inf/nan) rejected outright"""
 
 
 class _Retryable(Exception):
-    """internal signal for commons.aretry: a retryable 429/5xx; carries the real response"""
+    """internal signal for commons.aretry on a retryable 429/5xx, carrying the real response"""
 
     def __init__(self, result: WebhookResult):
         super().__init__(f"retryable status {result.status}")
@@ -38,11 +33,7 @@ class _Retryable(Exception):
 
 
 def _proxy_string(proxies_dict: Optional[Dict[str, str]]) -> Optional[str]:
-    """canonical host:port:user:pass (or host:port) from an aiohttp proxies dict
-
-    duck-typed: reads whatever the provider's get() returned without importing it.
-    returns None if the dict is empty or unparseable.
-    """
+    """canonical host:port:user:pass (or host:port) from an aiohttp proxies dict, or None if unparseable"""
     if not proxies_dict:
         return None
     url = proxies_dict.get("http") or proxies_dict.get("https")
@@ -95,11 +86,7 @@ class Webhook:
 
     @staticmethod
     def _retry_after(status: int, headers, body) -> Optional[float]:
-        """seconds to wait on a 429, from body retry_after then Retry-After header
-
-        non-finite values (inf/nan) are rejected as unparseable; finite values are
-        clamped to MAX_RETRY_AFTER.
-        """
+        """seconds to wait on a 429 from body retry_after then Retry-After header, clamped to MAX_RETRY_AFTER"""
         if status != 429:
             return None
         if isinstance(body, dict) and body.get("retry_after") is not None:
@@ -167,10 +154,8 @@ class Webhook:
     ) -> WebhookResult:
         """one logical send: proxy rotation + a single POST; may raise _Retryable
 
-        a 429 retry_after is carried to the START of the next attempt's sleep, never
-        slept after the attempt that raises. `counter`/`pending_wait` are per-call
-        mutable cells threaded from `_send_loop` (aretry calls this fresh each retry,
-        so a plain local wouldn't survive) - keeps state safe across concurrent sends.
+        `counter`/`pending_wait` are per-call mutable cells threaded from `_send_loop`, not
+        instance state - a plain local wouldn't survive aretry calling this fresh each retry.
         """
         timeout = aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=self.timeout)
         last_proxy: Optional[str] = None