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 # retry-backoff
 
-WIP
+Retry operations with incremental backoff.
+
+---
+
+There's a default timeout set to 30 seconds. If you'd like to set a different
+timeout, you'll need to either pass in options to `useRetryWithBackoff`:
+
+```ts
+import { main } from "effection";
+import { useRetryWithBackoff } from "@effection-contrib/retry-backoff";
+import { myOperation } from "./myOperation";
+
+await main(function* () {
+  yield* useRetryWithBackoff(myOperation, { timeout: 45_000 });
+});
+```
+
+Or initialize the context so that the same timeout can be applied to all of your
+retry operations:
+
+```ts
+import { main } from "effection";
+import {
+  initRetryWithBackoff,
+  useRetryWithBackoff,
+} from "@effection-contrib/retry-backoff";
+import { myOperation } from "./myOperation";
+
+await main(function* () {
+  yield* initRetryWithBackoff({ timeout: 45_000 });
+  yield* retryWithBackoff(myOperation);
+});
+```