diff --git a/src/backend/base/langflow/base/vectorstores/model.py b/src/backend/base/langflow/base/vectorstores/model.py
index 2cc93cc60..e05be744e 100644
--- a/src/backend/base/langflow/base/vectorstores/model.py
+++ b/src/backend/base/langflow/base/vectorstores/model.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class LCVectorStoreComponent(Component):
         """
         raise NotImplementedError("build_vector_store method must be implemented.")
 
-    def build_base_retriever(self) -> Retriever:
+    def build_base_retriever(self) -> Retriever:  # type: ignore[type-var]
         """
         Builds the BaseRetriever object.
         """
diff --git a/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/AmazonKendra.py b/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/AmazonKendra.py
index ff830f2ed..90c70a7bc 100644
--- a/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/AmazonKendra.py
+++ b/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/AmazonKendra.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import Optional
+from typing import Optional, cast
 
 from langchain_community.retrievers import AmazonKendraRetriever
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class AmazonKendraRetrieverComponent(CustomComponent):
         credentials_profile_name: Optional[str] = None,
         attribute_filter: Optional[dict] = None,
         user_context: Optional[dict] = None,
-    ) -> Retriever:
+    ) -> Retriever:  # type: ignore[type-var]
         try:
             output = AmazonKendraRetriever(
                 index_id=index_id,
@@ -48,4 +48,4 @@ class AmazonKendraRetrieverComponent(CustomComponent):
             )  # type: ignore
         except Exception as e:
             raise ValueError("Could not connect to AmazonKendra API.") from e
-        return output
+        return cast(Retriever, output)
diff --git a/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/CohereRerank.py b/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/CohereRerank.py
index dd560d588..939ee3989 100644
--- a/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/CohereRerank.py
+++ b/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/CohereRerank.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import List
+from typing import List, cast
 
 from langchain.retrievers import ContextualCompressionRetriever
 from langchain_cohere import CohereRerank
@@ -36,15 +36,15 @@ class CohereRerankComponent(LCVectorStoreComponent):
         HandleInput(name="retriever", display_name="Retriever", input_types=["Retriever"]),
     ]
 
-    def build_base_retriever(self) -> Retriever:
+    def build_base_retriever(self) -> Retriever:  # type: ignore[type-var]
         cohere_reranker = CohereRerank(
             cohere_api_key=self.api_key, model=self.model, top_n=self.top_n, user_agent=self.user_agent
         )
         retriever = ContextualCompressionRetriever(base_compressor=cohere_reranker, base_retriever=self.retriever)
-        return retriever
+        return cast(Retriever, retriever)
 
-    async def search_documents(self) -> List[Data]:
-        retriever: ContextualCompressionRetriever = self.build_base_retriever()
+    async def search_documents(self) -> List[Data]:  # type: ignore
+        retriever = self.build_base_retriever()
         documents = await retriever.ainvoke(self.search_query)
         data = self.to_data(documents)
         self.status = data
diff --git a/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/MetalRetriever.py b/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/MetalRetriever.py
index 104adcbde..f3af0ebb0 100644
--- a/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/MetalRetriever.py
+++ b/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/MetalRetriever.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import Optional
+from typing import Optional, cast
 
 from langchain_community.retrievers import MetalRetriever
 from metal_sdk.metal import Metal  # type: ignore
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ class MetalRetrieverComponent(CustomComponent):
             "code": {"show": False},
         }
 
-    def build(self, api_key: str, client_id: str, index_id: str, params: Optional[dict] = None) -> Retriever:
+    def build(self, api_key: str, client_id: str, index_id: str, params: Optional[dict] = None) -> Retriever:  # type: ignore[type-var]
         try:
             metal = Metal(api_key=api_key, client_id=client_id, index_id=index_id)
         except Exception as e:
             raise ValueError("Could not connect to Metal API.") from e
-        return MetalRetriever(client=metal, params=params or {})
+        return cast(Retriever, MetalRetriever(client=metal, params=params or {}))
diff --git a/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/VectaraSelfQueryRetriver.py b/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/VectaraSelfQueryRetriver.py
index 42ffd92d6..a328b2b20 100644
--- a/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/VectaraSelfQueryRetriver.py
+++ b/src/backend/base/langflow/components/retrievers/VectaraSelfQueryRetriver.py
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 import json
-from typing import List
+from typing import List, cast
 
 from langchain.chains.query_constructor.base import AttributeInfo
 from langchain.retrievers.self_query.base import SelfQueryRetriever
 from langchain_core.vectorstores import VectorStore
 
 from langflow.custom import CustomComponent
-from langflow.field_typing.constants import LanguageModel
 from langflow.field_typing import Retriever
+from langflow.field_typing.constants import LanguageModel
 
 
 class VectaraSelfQueryRetriverComponent(CustomComponent):
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class VectaraSelfQueryRetriverComponent(CustomComponent):
         document_content_description: str,
         llm: LanguageModel,
         metadata_field_info: List[str],
-    ) -> Retriever:
+    ) -> Retriever:  # type: ignore
         metadata_field_obj = []
 
         for meta in metadata_field_info:
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ class VectaraSelfQueryRetriverComponent(CustomComponent):
             )
             metadata_field_obj.append(attribute_info)
 
-        return SelfQueryRetriever.from_llm(
-            llm, vectorstore, document_content_description, metadata_field_obj, verbose=True
+        return cast(
+            Retriever,
+            SelfQueryRetriever.from_llm(
+                llm, vectorstore, document_content_description, metadata_field_obj, verbose=True
+            ),
         )
diff --git a/src/backend/base/langflow/field_typing/constants.py b/src/backend/base/langflow/field_typing/constants.py
index 89e3785cd..0156849cc 100644
--- a/src/backend/base/langflow/field_typing/constants.py
+++ b/src/backend/base/langflow/field_typing/constants.py
@@ -13,15 +13,16 @@ from langchain_core.output_parsers import BaseOutputParser
 from langchain_core.prompts import BasePromptTemplate, ChatPromptTemplate, PromptTemplate
 from langchain_core.retrievers import BaseRetriever
 from langchain_core.tools import Tool
-from langchain_core.vectorstores import VectorStore
+from langchain_core.vectorstores import VectorStore, VectorStoreRetriever
 from langchain_text_splitters import TextSplitter
 
 NestedDict: TypeAlias = Dict[str, Union[str, Dict]]
 LanguageModel = TypeVar("LanguageModel", BaseLanguageModel, BaseLLM, BaseChatModel)
-
-
-class Retriever(BaseRetriever):
-    pass
+Retriever = TypeVar(
+    "Retriever",
+    BaseRetriever,
+    VectorStoreRetriever,
+)
 
 
 class Object: