riverpod-retry

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Customize Riverpod automatic retry on provider failure; retry function, per-provider and global retry, disabling retry, ProviderException, awaiting retries. Use when a provider can fail transiently and should retry, or when you need to disable or customize retry logic. Use this skill when the user asks about retry, failed providers, or exponential backoff in Riverpod.

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Added on2026-04-21

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npx skill4agent add serverpod/skills-registry riverpod-retry

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Riverpod — Automatic retry

Instructions

Riverpod retries providers when their computation throws. Retry can be customized per provider or globally.

Default behavior

By default a provider is retried up to a limit (e.g. 10 times) with exponential backoff (e.g. 200ms to 6.4s). Error and ProviderException are not retried: Error indicates a bug; ProviderException means a dependency failed, so the dependent provider is not retried (the underlying one is).

Custom retry function

A retry function has signature

Duration? Function(int retryCount, Object error)

. Return a Duration for the delay before the next retry, or null to stop.

dart

Duration? myRetry(int retryCount, Object error) {
  if (retryCount >= 5) return null;
  if (error is ProviderException) return null;
  return Duration(milliseconds: 200 * (1 << retryCount));
}

Where to set it

Per provider: Pass
```
retry: myRetry
```
when defining the provider (or
```
@Riverpod(retry: myRetry)
```
with codegen).
Globally: Pass
```
retry: myRetry
```
to ProviderScope or ProviderContainer.

dart

// Global
ProviderScope(retry: myRetry, child: MyApp())

// Per provider (manual)
final myProvider = Provider<int>(retry: myRetry, (ref) => 0);

Disabling retry

Return null always:

dart

ProviderScope(retry: (retryCount, error) => null, child: MyApp())

Awaiting async providers with retry

ref.watch(myProvider.future)

(or equivalent) keeps waiting until either all retries are exhausted or the provider succeeds. So

await ref.watch(myProvider.future)

skips intermediate failures and completes when the provider finally succeeds or gives up.

riverpod-retry

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SKILL.md Content

Riverpod — Automatic retry

Instructions

Default behavior

Custom retry function

Where to set it

Disabling retry

Awaiting async providers with retry