diff --git a/knowledgehub/agents/base.py b/knowledgehub/agents/base.py
index acfddcb..131466c 100644
--- a/knowledgehub/agents/base.py
+++ b/knowledgehub/agents/base.py
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 from typing import Optional, Union
 
-from theflow import Node, Param
-
-from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent
+from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Node, Param
 from kotaemon.llms import BaseLLM, PromptTemplate
 
 from .io import AgentOutput, AgentType
diff --git a/knowledgehub/agents/react/agent.py b/knowledgehub/agents/react/agent.py
index abb70bb..6b7fe97 100644
--- a/knowledgehub/agents/react/agent.py
+++ b/knowledgehub/agents/react/agent.py
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@ import logging
 import re
 from typing import Optional
 
-from theflow import Param
-
 from kotaemon.agents.base import BaseAgent, BaseLLM
 from kotaemon.agents.io import AgentAction, AgentFinish, AgentOutput, AgentType
 from kotaemon.agents.tools import BaseTool
+from kotaemon.base import Param
 from kotaemon.llms import PromptTemplate
 
 FINAL_ANSWER_ACTION = "Final Answer:"
diff --git a/knowledgehub/agents/rewoo/agent.py b/knowledgehub/agents/rewoo/agent.py
index 5c6fba3..81f8b8a 100644
--- a/knowledgehub/agents/rewoo/agent.py
+++ b/knowledgehub/agents/rewoo/agent.py
@@ -3,12 +3,11 @@ import re
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from typing import Any
 
-from theflow import Node, Param
-
 from kotaemon.agents.base import BaseAgent
 from kotaemon.agents.io import AgentOutput, AgentType, BaseScratchPad
 from kotaemon.agents.tools import BaseTool
 from kotaemon.agents.utils import get_plugin_response_content
+from kotaemon.base import Node, Param
 from kotaemon.indices.qa import CitationPipeline
 from kotaemon.llms import BaseLLM, PromptTemplate
 
diff --git a/knowledgehub/base/__init__.py b/knowledgehub/base/__init__.py
index 11e9b76..52e036f 100644
--- a/knowledgehub/base/__init__.py
+++ b/knowledgehub/base/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from .component import BaseComponent
+from .component import BaseComponent, Node, Param, lazy
 from .schema import (
     AIMessage,
     BaseMessage,
@@ -22,4 +22,7 @@ __all__ = [
     "RetrievedDocument",
     "LLMInterface",
     "ExtractorOutput",
+    "Param",
+    "Node",
+    "lazy",
 ]
diff --git a/knowledgehub/base/component.py b/knowledgehub/base/component.py
index 71da362..bf1851f 100644
--- a/knowledgehub/base/component.py
+++ b/knowledgehub/base/component.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from abc import abstractmethod
 
-from theflow.base import Function
+from theflow import Function, Node, Param, lazy
 
 from kotaemon.base.schema import Document
 
@@ -35,3 +35,6 @@ class BaseComponent(Function):
     def run(self, *args, **kwargs) -> Document | list[Document] | None:
         """Run the component."""
         ...
+
+
+__all__ = ["BaseComponent", "Param", "Node", "lazy"]
diff --git a/knowledgehub/indices/ingests/files.py b/knowledgehub/indices/ingests/files.py
index 83ea8b9..1d7db35 100644
--- a/knowledgehub/indices/ingests/files.py
+++ b/knowledgehub/indices/ingests/files.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 
 from llama_index.readers.base import BaseReader
-from theflow import Param
 
-from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Document
+from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Document, Param
 from kotaemon.indices.extractors import BaseDocParser
 from kotaemon.indices.splitters import BaseSplitter, TokenSplitter
 from kotaemon.loaders import (
diff --git a/knowledgehub/llms/branching.py b/knowledgehub/llms/branching.py
index 07671f2..8f93caf 100644
--- a/knowledgehub/llms/branching.py
+++ b/knowledgehub/llms/branching.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 from typing import List, Optional
 
-from theflow import Param
+from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Document, Param
 
-from ..base import BaseComponent, Document
 from .linear import GatedLinearPipeline
 
 
diff --git a/knowledgehub/llms/cot.py b/knowledgehub/llms/cot.py
index 29256b3..5786f41 100644
--- a/knowledgehub/llms/cot.py
+++ b/knowledgehub/llms/cot.py
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 from copy import deepcopy
 from typing import Callable, List
 
-from theflow import Function, Node, Param
-
-from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Document
+from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Document, Node, Param
 
 from .chats import AzureChatOpenAI
 from .completions import LLM
@@ -74,7 +72,7 @@ class Thought(BaseComponent):
         )
     )
     llm: LLM = Node(AzureChatOpenAI, help="The LLM model to execute the input prompt")
-    post_process: Function = Node(
+    post_process: BaseComponent = Node(
         help=(
             "The function post-processor that post-processes LLM output prediction ."
             "It should take a string as input (this is the LLM output text) and return "
@@ -85,7 +83,7 @@ class Thought(BaseComponent):
     @Node.auto(depends_on="prompt")
     def prompt_template(self):
         """Automatically wrap around param prompt. Can ignore"""
-        return BasePromptComponent(self.prompt)
+        return BasePromptComponent(template=self.prompt)
 
     def run(self, **kwargs) -> Document:
         """Run the chain of thought"""
diff --git a/knowledgehub/llms/prompts/base.py b/knowledgehub/llms/prompts/base.py
index d0d8d8c..564279d 100644
--- a/knowledgehub/llms/prompts/base.py
+++ b/knowledgehub/llms/prompts/base.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from typing import Callable, Union
 
-from ...base import BaseComponent, Document
+from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Document
+
 from .template import PromptTemplate
 
 
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ class BasePromptComponent(BaseComponent):
 
     class Config:
         middleware_switches = {"theflow.middleware.CachingMiddleware": False}
+        allow_extra = True
 
     def __init__(self, template: Union[str, PromptTemplate], **kwargs):
         super().__init__()
diff --git a/knowledgehub/parsers/regex_extractor.py b/knowledgehub/parsers/regex_extractor.py
index a269fb0..90ad365 100644
--- a/knowledgehub/parsers/regex_extractor.py
+++ b/knowledgehub/parsers/regex_extractor.py
@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import re
 from typing import Callable
 
-from theflow import Param
-
-from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Document
-from kotaemon.base.schema import ExtractorOutput
+from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Document, ExtractorOutput, Param
 
 
 class RegexExtractor(BaseComponent):
diff --git a/templates/project-default/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pipeline.py b/templates/project-default/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pipeline.py
index 32735de..1739ca8 100644
--- a/templates/project-default/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pipeline.py
+++ b/templates/project-default/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/{{cookiecutter.project_name}}/pipeline.py
@@ -1,10 +1,7 @@
 import os
 from typing import List
 
-from theflow import Node, Param
-from theflow.utils.modules import ObjectInitDeclaration as _
-
-from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Document, LLMInterface
+from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, Document, LLMInterface, Node, Param, lazy
 from kotaemon.contribs.promptui.logs import ResultLog
 from kotaemon.embeddings import AzureOpenAIEmbeddings
 from kotaemon.indices import VectorIndexing, VectorRetrieval
@@ -48,8 +45,8 @@ class QuestionAnsweringPipeline(BaseComponent):
 
     retrieving_pipeline: VectorRetrieval = Node(
         VectorRetrieval.withx(
-            vector_store=_(ChromaVectorStore).withx(path="./tmp"),
-            doc_store=_(SimpleFileDocumentStore).withx(path="docstore.json"),
+            vector_store=lazy(ChromaVectorStore).withx(path="./tmp"),
+            doc_store=lazy(SimpleFileDocumentStore).withx(path="docstore.json"),
             embedding=AzureOpenAIEmbeddings.withx(
                 model="text-embedding-ada-002",
                 deployment="dummy-q2-text-embedding",
@@ -78,11 +75,11 @@ class QuestionAnsweringPipeline(BaseComponent):
 class IndexingPipeline(VectorIndexing):
 
     vector_store: ChromaVectorStore = Param(
-        _(ChromaVectorStore).withx(path="./tmp"),
+        lazy(ChromaVectorStore).withx(path="./tmp"),
         ignore_ui=True,
     )
     doc_store: SimpleFileDocumentStore = Param(
-        _(SimpleFileDocumentStore).withx(path="docstore.json"),
+        lazy(SimpleFileDocumentStore).withx(path="docstore.json"),
         ignore_ui=True,
     )
     embedding: AzureOpenAIEmbeddings = AzureOpenAIEmbeddings.withx(
diff --git a/tests/simple_pipeline.py b/tests/simple_pipeline.py
index 8394f7b..e3c6cf2 100644
--- a/tests/simple_pipeline.py
+++ b/tests/simple_pipeline.py
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 import tempfile
 from typing import List
 
-from theflow.utils.modules import ObjectInitDeclaration as _
-
-from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, LLMInterface
+from kotaemon.base import BaseComponent, LLMInterface, lazy
 from kotaemon.embeddings import AzureOpenAIEmbeddings
 from kotaemon.indices import VectorRetrieval
 from kotaemon.llms import AzureOpenAI
@@ -21,7 +19,7 @@ class Pipeline(BaseComponent):
     )
 
     retrieving_pipeline: VectorRetrieval = VectorRetrieval.withx(
-        vector_store=_(ChromaVectorStore).withx(path=str(tempfile.mkdtemp())),
+        vector_store=lazy(ChromaVectorStore).withx(path=str(tempfile.mkdtemp())),
         embedding=AzureOpenAIEmbeddings.withx(
             model="text-embedding-ada-002",
             deployment="embedding-deployment",
diff --git a/tests/test_prompt.py b/tests/test_prompt.py
index 2063a65..9cc72e0 100644
--- a/tests/test_prompt.py
+++ b/tests/test_prompt.py
@@ -22,21 +22,21 @@ def test_set_attributes():
 
 def test_check_redundant_kwargs():
     template = PromptTemplate("Hello, {name}!")
-    prompt = BasePromptComponent(template, name="Alice")
+    prompt = BasePromptComponent(template=template, name="Alice")
     with pytest.warns(UserWarning, match="Keys provided but not in template: age"):
         prompt._BasePromptComponent__check_redundant_kwargs(name="Alice", age=30)
 
 
 def test_check_unset_placeholders():
     template = PromptTemplate("Hello, {name}! I'm {age} years old.")
-    prompt = BasePromptComponent(template, name="Alice")
+    prompt = BasePromptComponent(template=template, name="Alice")
     with pytest.raises(ValueError):
         prompt._BasePromptComponent__check_unset_placeholders()
 
 
 def test_validate_value_type():
     template = PromptTemplate("Hello, {name}!")
-    prompt = BasePromptComponent(template)
+    prompt = BasePromptComponent(template=template)
     with pytest.raises(ValueError):
         prompt._BasePromptComponent__validate_value_type(name={})
 
@@ -58,6 +58,6 @@ def test_run():
 
 def test_set_method():
     template = PromptTemplate("Hello, {name}!")
-    prompt = BasePromptComponent(template)
+    prompt = BasePromptComponent(template=template)
     prompt.set(name="Alice")
     assert prompt.name == "Alice"