diff --git a/tests/test_infected_asyncio.py b/tests/test_infected_asyncio.py
index f11a4eed..51ca6115 100644
--- a/tests/test_infected_asyncio.py
+++ b/tests/test_infected_asyncio.py
@@ -732,15 +732,21 @@ def test_aio_errors_and_channel_propagates_and_closes(
 
 
 async def aio_echo_server(
-    to_trio: trio.MemorySendChannel,
-    from_trio: asyncio.Queue,
+    chan: to_asyncio.LinkedTaskChannel,
 ) -> None:
+    '''
+    An IPC-msg "echo server" with msgs received and relayed by
+    a parent `trio.Task` into a child `asyncio.Task`
+    and then repeated back to that local parent (`trio.Task`)
+    and sent again back to the original calling remote actor.
 
-    to_trio.send_nowait('start')
+    '''
+    # same semantics as `trio.TaskStatus.started()`
+    chan.started_nowait('start')
 
     while True:
         try:
-            msg = await from_trio.get()
+            msg = await chan.get()
         except to_asyncio.TrioTaskExited:
             print(
                 'breaking aio echo loop due to `trio` exit!'
@@ -748,7 +754,7 @@ async def aio_echo_server(
             break
 
         # echo the msg back
-        to_trio.send_nowait(msg)
+        chan.send_nowait(msg)
 
         # if we get the terminate sentinel
         # break the echo loop
@@ -765,7 +771,10 @@ async def trio_to_aio_echo_server(
 ):
     async with to_asyncio.open_channel_from(
         aio_echo_server,
-    ) as (first, chan):
+    ) as (
+        first,  # value from `chan.started_nowait()` above
+        chan,
+    ):
         assert first == 'start'
 
         await ctx.started(first)
@@ -776,7 +785,8 @@ async def trio_to_aio_echo_server(
                 await chan.send(msg)
 
                 out = await chan.receive()
-                # echo back to parent actor-task
+
+                # echo back to parent-actor's remote parent-ctx-task!
                 await stream.send(out)
 
                 if out is None:
@@ -1090,14 +1100,12 @@ def test_sigint_closes_lifetime_stack(
 
 
 # ?TODO asyncio.Task fn-deco?
-# -[ ] do sig checkingat import time like @context?
-# -[ ] maybe name it @aio_task ??
 # -[ ] chan: to_asyncio.InterloopChannel ??
+# -[ ] do fn-sig checking at import time like @context?
+#  |_[ ] maybe name it @a(sync)io_task ??
+# @asyncio_task  <- not bad ??
 async def raise_before_started(
-    # from_trio: asyncio.Queue,
-    # to_trio: trio.abc.SendChannel,
     chan: to_asyncio.LinkedTaskChannel,
-
 ) -> None:
     '''
     `asyncio.Task` entry point which RTEs before calling
diff --git a/tractor/to_asyncio.py b/tractor/to_asyncio.py
index 8c22f84d..9393b452 100644
--- a/tractor/to_asyncio.py
+++ b/tractor/to_asyncio.py
@@ -94,10 +94,14 @@ else:
     QueueShutDown = False
 
 
-# TODO, generally speaking we can generalize this abstraction, a "SC linked
-# parent->child task pair", as the same "supervision scope primitive"
-# **that is** our `._context.Context` with the only difference being
-# in how the tasks conduct msg-passing comms.
+# TODO, generally speaking we can generalize this abstraction as,
+#
+# > A "SC linked, inter-event-loop" channel for comms between
+# > a `parent: trio.Task` -> `child: asyncio.Task` pair.
+#
+# It is **very similar** in terms of its operation as a "supervision
+# scope primitive" to that of our `._context.Context` with the only
+# difference being in how the tasks conduct msg-passing comms.
 #
 # For `LinkedTaskChannel` we are passing the equivalent of (once you
 # include all the recently added  `._trio/aio_to_raise`
@@ -122,6 +126,7 @@ class LinkedTaskChannel(
     task scheduled in the host loop.
 
     '''
+    # ?TODO, rename as `._aio_q` since it's 2-way?
     _to_aio: asyncio.Queue
     _from_aio: trio.MemoryReceiveChannel
 
@@ -235,9 +240,11 @@ class LinkedTaskChannel(
     #
     async def receive(self) -> Any:
         '''
-        Receive a value from the paired `asyncio.Task` with
+        Receive a value `trio.Task` <- `asyncio.Task`.
+
+        Note the tasks in each loop are "SC linked" as a pair with
         exception/cancel handling to teardown both sides on any
-        unexpected error.
+        unexpected error or cancellation.
 
         '''
         try:
@@ -261,15 +268,42 @@ class LinkedTaskChannel(
             ):
                 raise err
 
+    async def get(self) -> Any:
+        '''
+        Receive a value `asyncio.Task` <- `trio.Task`.
+
+        This is equiv to `await self._from_trio.get()`.
+
+        '''
+        return await self._to_aio.get()
+
     async def send(self, item: Any) -> None:
         '''
-        Send a value through to the asyncio task presuming
-        it defines a ``from_trio`` argument, if it does not
+        Send a value through `trio.Task` -> `asyncio.Task`
+        presuming
+        it defines a `from_trio` argument or makes calls
+        to `chan.get()` , if it does not
         this method will raise an error.
 
         '''
         self._to_aio.put_nowait(item)
 
+    # TODO? could we only compile-in this method on an instance
+    # handed to the `asyncio`-side, i.e. the fn invoked with
+    # `.open_channel_from()`.
+    def send_nowait(
+        self,
+        item: Any,
+    ) -> None:
+        '''
+        Send a value through FROM the `asyncio.Task` to
+        the `trio.Task` NON-BLOCKING.
+
+        This is equiv to `self._to_trio.send_nowait()`.
+
+        '''
+        self._to_trio.send_nowait(item)
+
     # TODO? needed?
     # async def wait_aio_complete(self) -> None:
     #     await self._aio_task_complete.wait()