diff --git a/crates/irtt-server/src/core.rs b/crates/irtt-server/src/core.rs
index f622d70..2265937 100644
--- a/crates/irtt-server/src/core.rs
+++ b/crates/irtt-server/src/core.rs
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ impl ServerCore {
     }
 
     /// The number of live sessions.
+    ///
+    /// This is the observable a caller genuinely needs — how much session state
+    /// the server is holding against its bound. The sessions themselves stay
+    /// crate-private until their shape settles.
     #[must_use]
     pub fn session_count(&self) -> usize {
         self.sessions.len()
@@ -78,8 +82,11 @@ impl ServerCore {
     /// This is a lookup by token alone and is therefore *not* an admission
     /// check: a request is bound to a session only when the token matches and
     /// it arrived from the session's exact endpoint.
-    #[must_use]
-    pub fn session(&self, token: u64) -> Option<&Session> {
+    //
+    // Called only by tests until echo and close processing arrive, which is
+    // what a token lookup is for.
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    pub(crate) fn session(&self, token: u64) -> Option<&Session> {
         self.sessions.get(&token)
     }
 
diff --git a/crates/irtt-server/src/lib.rs b/crates/irtt-server/src/lib.rs
index b72ae86..5f4fd6d 100644
--- a/crates/irtt-server/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/irtt-server/src/lib.rs
@@ -50,4 +50,3 @@ mod tests;
 pub use config::{ServerConfig, DEFAULT_MAX_SESSIONS};
 pub use core::ServerCore;
 pub use error::ServerError;
-pub use session::Session;
diff --git a/crates/irtt-server/src/session.rs b/crates/irtt-server/src/session.rs
index 9c7d7e7..b1e40de 100644
--- a/crates/irtt-server/src/session.rs
+++ b/crates/irtt-server/src/session.rs
@@ -9,8 +9,13 @@ use irtt_proto::Params;
 /// state (activity, deadlines, expiry) belong to the slices that implement
 /// those behaviors, and are deliberately absent rather than present as
 /// placeholders.
+///
+/// Deliberately crate-private. The next slices are all but certain to add and
+/// restructure fields here, and nothing outside the crate needs a session yet;
+/// publishing internal session state before ECHO even exists would buy nothing
+/// and commit us to a shape we are about to change.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
-pub struct Session {
+pub(crate) struct Session {
     peer: SocketAddr,
     params: Params,
 }
@@ -27,15 +32,23 @@ impl Session {
     /// all form part of its identity. Echo and close processing, once
     /// implemented, must require both a token match and an exact endpoint match
     /// before touching a session.
-    #[must_use]
-    pub fn peer(&self) -> SocketAddr {
+    //
+    // Read only by tests until then. The endpoint has to be captured at open
+    // time — it is not recoverable later — so this slice stores state whose
+    // production consumer is the next one, and the tests prove it is stored
+    // exactly.
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    pub(crate) fn peer(&self) -> SocketAddr {
         self.peer
     }
 
     /// The negotiated parameters the server returned for this session and will
     /// enforce for it.
-    #[must_use]
-    pub fn params(&self) -> &Params {
+    //
+    // Also awaiting its production consumer: echo replies are built from the
+    // negotiated params.
+    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    pub(crate) fn params(&self) -> &Params {
         &self.params
     }
 }