diff --git a/.changeset/brave-clouds-retry.md b/.changeset/brave-clouds-retry.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff3a51d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/brave-clouds-retry.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@neuledge/context": patch
+---
+
+Retry git clones on transient network failures (connection timeouts, DNS errors, 5xx) with exponential backoff, so a single network hiccup no longer fails package builds
diff --git a/packages/context/src/git.test.ts b/packages/context/src/git.test.ts
index afb0f96..59baeda 100644
--- a/packages/context/src/git.test.ts
+++ b/packages/context/src/git.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,43 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
-import { findLatestStableVersion, parseMonorepoTag } from "./git.js";
+import {
+  findLatestStableVersion,
+  isTransientGitError,
+  parseMonorepoTag,
+} from "./git.js";
+
+describe("isTransientGitError", () => {
+  it("detects connection failures", () => {
+    expect(
+      isTransientGitError(
+        "fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/vuejs/docs/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443 after 135337 ms: Couldn't connect to server",
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("detects DNS failures", () => {
+    expect(
+      isTransientGitError(
+        "fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/x/y/': Could not resolve host: github.com",
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("detects server errors", () => {
+    expect(
+      isTransientGitError("error: The requested URL returned error: 503"),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("rejects permanent errors", () => {
+    expect(
+      isTransientGitError("fatal: Remote branch v99.0.0 not found in upstream"),
+    ).toBe(false);
+    expect(isTransientGitError("remote: Repository not found.")).toBe(false);
+    expect(
+      isTransientGitError("fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://...'"),
+    ).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
 
 describe("parseMonorepoTag", () => {
   it("parses plain version tags", () => {
diff --git a/packages/context/src/git.ts b/packages/context/src/git.ts
index db19327..edc2f5c 100755
--- a/packages/context/src/git.ts
+++ b/packages/context/src/git.ts
@@ -207,34 +207,80 @@ function extractGitError(error: unknown): string {
   return error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Git error patterns that indicate a transient network failure worth
+ * retrying, as opposed to permanent errors (missing ref, repo not found,
+ * auth failure) where retrying just wastes time.
+ */
+const TRANSIENT_GIT_ERROR_PATTERNS = [
+  /could ?not resolve host/i,
+  /failed to connect/i,
+  /connection (timed out|reset|refused)/i,
+  /operation timed out/i,
+  /gnutls recv error/i,
+  /early eof/i,
+  /remote end hung up unexpectedly/i,
+  /rpc failed/i,
+  /returned error: (429|5\d\d)/i,
+];
+
+/**
+ * Check if a git error message looks like a transient network failure.
+ */
+export function isTransientGitError(message: string): boolean {
+  return TRANSIENT_GIT_ERROR_PATTERNS.some((re) => re.test(message));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Synchronous sleep (cloneRepository is sync, so no await available).
+ */
+function sleepSync(ms: number): void {
+  Atomics.wait(new Int32Array(new SharedArrayBuffer(4)), 0, 0, ms);
+}
+
+const CLONE_ATTEMPTS = 3;
+
 /**
  * Clone a git repository to a temporary directory.
+ * Retries transient network failures with exponential backoff (2s, 4s).
  */
 export function cloneRepository(url: string, ref?: string): GitCloneResult {
-  const tempDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "context-git-"));
+  for (let attempt = 1; ; attempt++) {
+    const tempDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "context-git-"));
 
-  try {
-    // Clone with depth 1 for efficiency (shallow clone)
-    const cloneArgs = ["clone", "--depth", "1"];
-    if (ref) {
-      cloneArgs.push("--branch", ref);
-    }
-    cloneArgs.push(url, tempDir);
+    try {
+      // Clone with depth 1 for efficiency (shallow clone)
+      const cloneArgs = ["clone", "--depth", "1"];
+      if (ref) {
+        cloneArgs.push("--branch", ref);
+      }
+      cloneArgs.push(url, tempDir);
 
-    execSync(`git ${cloneArgs.join(" ")}`, {
-      stdio: ["pipe", "pipe", "pipe"],
-      encoding: "utf-8",
-    });
-  } catch (error) {
-    // Clean up on failure
-    rmSync(tempDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
-    throw new Error(`Git clone failed: ${extractGitError(error)}`);
-  }
+      execSync(`git ${cloneArgs.join(" ")}`, {
+        stdio: ["pipe", "pipe", "pipe"],
+        encoding: "utf-8",
+      });
 
-  return {
-    tempDir,
-    cleanup: () => rmSync(tempDir, { recursive: true, force: true }),
-  };
+      return {
+        tempDir,
+        cleanup: () => rmSync(tempDir, { recursive: true, force: true }),
+      };
+    } catch (error) {
+      // Clean up on failure
+      rmSync(tempDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+
+      const message = extractGitError(error);
+      if (attempt >= CLONE_ATTEMPTS || !isTransientGitError(message)) {
+        throw new Error(`Git clone failed: ${message}`);
+      }
+
+      const delayMs = 2 ** attempt * 1000;
+      console.error(
+        `Clone of ${url} failed (attempt ${attempt}/${CLONE_ATTEMPTS}), retrying in ${delayMs / 1000}s...`,
+      );
+      sleepSync(delayMs);
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 /**