diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index dc28ad6..8f53c38 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ repository.
 
 `db-retry` is a library of retry, connection, and transaction helpers for PostgreSQL applications
 built on SQLAlchemy's asyncio extension and asyncpg; [`CONTEXT.md`](CONTEXT.md) opens with what it
-does and owns the vocabulary — read it before naming a concept in code, a test name, or an issue
+does and owns the vocabulary. Read it before naming a concept in code, a test name, or an issue
 title. The words most easily got wrong here are the ones this package shares with PostgreSQL: what
 "retriable" covers, what a "retry" counts, and what "primary" does not mean.
 
 ## Commands
 
-`just` (task runner) and `uv` (package manager). The [`justfile`](justfile) is the source of truth —
-`just --list`, or read it. The one thing it does not say: `just test` is Docker-only, so without a
+`just` (task runner) and `uv` (package manager). The [`justfile`](justfile) is the source of truth:
+run `just --list`, or read it. The one thing it does not say: `just test` is Docker-only, so without a
 Docker daemon, point `DB_DSN` at any reachable PostgreSQL and run `uv run pytest` directly.
 
 ## Architecture
diff --git a/CONTEXT.md b/CONTEXT.md
index edfa462..d09e5ad 100644
--- a/CONTEXT.md
+++ b/CONTEXT.md
@@ -15,20 +15,20 @@ package uses it.
 A PostgreSQL failure that can be re-run unchanged, because it says nothing about the request being
 wrong: a serialization failure (`40001`) or a lost connection (class `08`, or a `DBAPIError`
 SQLAlchemy marked `connection_invalidated`). `RETRIABLE_ASYNCPG_ERRORS` and that flag are the whole
-of it — an error outside them is not retriable, however temporary it looks.
-_Avoid_: transient error — it describes how long the failure lasts, not whether repeating the work
+of it: an error outside them is not retriable, however temporary it looks.
+_Avoid_: transient error. It describes how long the failure lasts, not whether repeating the work
 is safe, and the two come apart: `StatementCompletionUnknownError` (`40003`) is as short-lived as
 `40001` and must never be retried.
 
 **Attempt**:
-One call of the wrapped coroutine. `postgres_retry(retries=N)` bounds *attempts*, not retries — `N`
+One call of the wrapped coroutine. `postgres_retry(retries=N)` bounds *attempts*, not retries: `N`
 caps the calls of the body, so `retries=1` runs the body once and never re-runs it,
 and the `DB_RETRY_RETRIES_NUMBER` default of `3` allows two re-runs.
 _Avoid_: retry, as a count. The knob is spelled `retries` for callers and cannot be renamed without
 breaking them, but every number in this package counts attempts.
 
 **Primary host**:
-The host a connection's first connect attempt is aimed at — which, for a multi-host DSN, is
+The host a connection's first connect attempt is aimed at. For a multi-host DSN that is
 *every* host, in an order shuffled afresh for each connection, handed to asyncpg to walk itself.
 "Primary" is a position in the two-stage connect (one bulk attempt, then host-by-host through
 `failover`), not a PostgreSQL replication role; replication role is `target_session_attrs`, where
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1451e51..ece2658 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -227,4 +227,4 @@ export DB_RETRY_RETRIES_NUMBER=5
 ## Part of `modern-python`
 
 Browse the full list of templates and libraries in
-[`modern-python`](https://github.com/modern-python) — see the org profile for the categorized index.
+[`modern-python`](https://github.com/modern-python); see the org profile for the categorized index.