diff --git a/matchers/be_available.go b/matchers/be_available.go
index 60b13c3..3de2fd4 100644
--- a/matchers/be_available.go
+++ b/matchers/be_available.go
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/paketo-buildpacks/occam"
 )
 
+// BeAvailable matches if the actual occam.Container is running AND an
+// HTTP request to at least one of its exposed ports completes without error.
 func BeAvailable() types.GomegaMatcher {
 	return &BeAvailableMatcher{
 		Docker: occam.NewDocker(),
diff --git a/matchers/contain_lines.go b/matchers/contain_lines.go
index f21c8e2..bf5e958 100644
--- a/matchers/contain_lines.go
+++ b/matchers/contain_lines.go
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/onsi/gomega/types"
 )
 
+// ContainLines matches if all of the 'expected' matchers match with lines
+// (i.e. newline-delimited substrings) in the 'actual' string or fmt.Stringer.
+// Matching lines must appear in the order that the 'expected' matchers are
+// passed.
 func ContainLines(expected ...interface{}) types.GomegaMatcher {
 	return &containLinesMatcher{
 		expected: expected,
diff --git a/matchers/serve.go b/matchers/serve.go
index 67e235f..78cbb64 100644
--- a/matchers/serve.go
+++ b/matchers/serve.go
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/paketo-buildpacks/occam"
 )
 
+// Serve matches if the actual occam.Container is running AND the
+// response from an HTTP request to the container's exposed port
+// matches the 'expected' matcher passed as an argument.
 func Serve(expected interface{}) *ServeMatcher {
 	return &ServeMatcher{
 		expected: expected,
@@ -26,16 +29,22 @@ type ServeMatcher struct {
 	response string
 }
 
+// OnPort sets the container port that is expected to be exposed.
 func (sm *ServeMatcher) OnPort(port int) *ServeMatcher {
 	sm.port = port
 	return sm
 }
 
+// WithEndpoint sets the endpoint or subdirectory where the expected content
+// should be available. For example, WithEndpoint("/health") will attempt to
+// access the server's /health endpoint.
 func (sm *ServeMatcher) WithEndpoint(endpoint string) *ServeMatcher {
 	sm.endpoint = endpoint
 	return sm
 }
 
+// WithDocker sets the occam.Docker that the matcher will use to access
+// the 'actual' container's metadata.
 func (sm *ServeMatcher) WithDocker(docker occam.Docker) *ServeMatcher {
 	sm.docker = docker
 	return sm