diff --git a/src/Experimental/RAGTools/preparation.jl b/src/Experimental/RAGTools/preparation.jl
index f2c8a4029..187f9495f 100644
--- a/src/Experimental/RAGTools/preparation.jl
+++ b/src/Experimental/RAGTools/preparation.jl
@@ -742,12 +742,12 @@ Builds a `PineconeIndex` containing a Pinecone context (API key, index and names
 function build_index(
         indexer::PineconeIndexer, files_or_docs::Vector{<:AbstractString};
         metadata::Vector{Dict{String, Any}} = Vector{Dict{String, Any}}(),
-        context::Pinecone.PineconeContextv3 = Pinecone.init_v3(""),
-        index::Pinecone.PineconeIndexv3 = nothing,
-        namespace::AbstractString = "",
+        pinecone_context::Pinecone.PineconeContextv3 = Pinecone.init_v3(""),
+        pinecone_index::Pinecone.PineconeIndexv3 = nothing,
+        pinecone_namespace::AbstractString = "",
         upsert::Bool = false,
         verbose::Integer = 1,
-        index_id = gensym(namespace),
+        index_id = gensym(pinecone_namespace),
         chunker::AbstractChunker = indexer.chunker,
         chunker_kwargs::NamedTuple = NamedTuple(),
         embedder::AbstractEmbedder = indexer.embedder,
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ function build_index(
         tagger_kwargs::NamedTuple = NamedTuple(),
         api_kwargs::NamedTuple = NamedTuple(),
         cost_tracker = Threads.Atomic{Float64}(0.0))
-    @assert !isempty(context.apikey) && !isnothing(index) "Pinecone context and index not set"
+    @assert !isempty(pinecone_context.apikey) && !isnothing(pinecone_index) "Pinecone context and index not set"
 
     ## Split into chunks
     chunks, sources = get_chunks(chunker, files_or_docs;
@@ -788,12 +788,12 @@ function build_index(
         embeddings_arr = [embeddings[:,i] for i in axes(embeddings,2)]
         for (idx, emb) in enumerate(embeddings_arr)
             pinevector = Pinecone.PineconeVector(string(UUIDs.uuid4()), emb, metadata[idx])
-            Pinecone.upsert(context, index, [pinevector], namespace)
+            Pinecone.upsert(pinecone_context, pinecone_index, [pinevector], pinecone_namespace)
             @info "Upsert #$idx complete"
         end
     end
 
-    index = PineconeIndex(; id = index_id, context, index, namespace, chunks, embeddings, tags, tags_vocab, metadata, sources)
+    index = PineconeIndex(; id = index_id, pinecone_context, pinecone_index, pinecone_namespace, chunks, embeddings, tags, tags_vocab, metadata, sources)
 
     (verbose > 0) && @info "Index built! (cost: \$$(round(cost_tracker[], digits=3)))"
 
diff --git a/src/Experimental/RAGTools/retrieval.jl b/src/Experimental/RAGTools/retrieval.jl
index 664210f77..673fdafba 100644
--- a/src/Experimental/RAGTools/retrieval.jl
+++ b/src/Experimental/RAGTools/retrieval.jl
@@ -246,9 +246,9 @@ function find_closest(
         query_emb::AbstractVector{<:Real}, query_tokens::AbstractVector{<:AbstractString} = String[];
         top_n::Int = 10, kwargs...)
     # get Pinecone info
-    pinecone_context = index.context
-    pinecone_index = index.index
-    pinecone_namespace = index.namespace
+    pinecone_context = index.pinecone_context
+    pinecone_index = index.pinecone_index
+    pinecone_namespace = index.pinecone_namespace
 
     # query candidates
     pinecone_results = Pinecone.query(pinecone_context, pinecone_index,
diff --git a/src/Experimental/RAGTools/types.jl b/src/Experimental/RAGTools/types.jl
index 37854c031..3301c1b67 100644
--- a/src/Experimental/RAGTools/types.jl
+++ b/src/Experimental/RAGTools/types.jl
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ chunkdata(index::ChunkEmbeddingsIndex) = embeddings(index)
 const ChunkIndex = ChunkEmbeddingsIndex
 
 indexid(index::AbstractManagedIndex) = index.id
+chunks(index::AbstractManagedIndex) = index.chunks
+sources(index::AbstractManagedIndex) = index.sources
 
 using Pinecone: Pinecone, PineconeContextv3, PineconeIndexv3
 @kwdef struct PineconeIndex{
@@ -145,9 +147,9 @@ using Pinecone: Pinecone, PineconeContextv3, PineconeIndexv3
     T3 <: Union{Nothing, AbstractMatrix{<:Bool}}
 } <: AbstractManagedIndex
     id::Symbol  # namespace
-    context::Pinecone.PineconeContextv3
-    index::Pinecone.PineconeIndexv3
-    namespace::String
+    pinecone_context::Pinecone.PineconeContextv3
+    pinecone_index::Pinecone.PineconeIndexv3
+    pinecone_namespace::String
     # underlying document chunks / snippets
     chunks::Vector{T1} = nothing
     # for semantic search
@@ -546,6 +548,84 @@ Base.@propagate_inbounds function translate_positions_to_parent(
     return sub_positions[pos]
 end
 
+
+@kwdef struct SubManagedIndex{T <: AbstractManagedIndex} <: AbstractManagedIndex
+    parent::T
+    positions::Vector{Int}
+end
+
+indexid(index::SubManagedIndex) = parent(index) |> indexid
+positions(index::SubManagedIndex) = index.positions
+Base.parent(index::SubManagedIndex) = index.parent
+HasEmbeddings(index::SubManagedIndex) = HasEmbeddings(parent(index))
+HasKeywords(index::SubManagedIndex) = HasKeywords(parent(index))
+
+Base.@propagate_inbounds function chunks(index::SubManagedIndex)
+    view(chunks(parent(index)), positions(index))
+end
+Base.@propagate_inbounds function sources(index::SubManagedIndex)
+    view(sources(parent(index)), positions(index))
+end
+Base.@propagate_inbounds function chunkdata(index::SubManagedIndex)
+    chunkdata(parent(index), positions(index))
+end
+"Access chunkdata for a subset of chunks, `chunk_idx` is a vector of chunk indices in the index"
+Base.@propagate_inbounds function chunkdata(
+        index::SubManagedIndex, chunk_idx::AbstractVector{<:Integer})
+    ## We need this accessor because different chunk indices can have chunks in different dimensions!!
+    index_chunk_idx = translate_positions_to_parent(index, chunk_idx)
+    pos = intersect(positions(index), index_chunk_idx)
+    chkdata = chunkdata(parent(index), pos)
+end
+function embeddings(index::SubManagedIndex)
+    if HasEmbeddings(index)
+        view(embeddings(parent(index)), :, positions(index))
+    else
+        throw(ArgumentError("`embeddings` not implemented for $(typeof(index))"))
+    end
+end
+function tags(index::SubManagedIndex)
+    tagsdata = tags(parent(index))
+    isnothing(tagsdata) && return nothing
+    view(tagsdata, positions(index), :)
+end
+function tags_vocab(index::SubManagedIndex)
+    tags_vocab(parent(index))
+end
+function extras(index::SubManagedIndex)
+    extrasdata = extras(parent(index))
+    isnothing(extrasdata) && return nothing
+    view(extrasdata, positions(index))
+end
+function Base.vcat(i1::SubManagedIndex, i2::SubManagedIndex)
+    throw(ArgumentError("vcat not implemented for type $(typeof(i1)) and $(typeof(i2))"))
+end
+function Base.vcat(i1::T, i2::T) where {T <: SubManagedIndex}
+    ## Check if can be merged
+    if indexid(parent(i1)) != indexid(parent(i2))
+        throw(ArgumentError("Parent indices must be the same (provided: $(indexid(parent(i1))) and $(indexid(parent(i2))))"))
+    end
+    return SubChunkIndex(parent(i1), vcat(positions(i1), positions(i2)))
+end
+function Base.unique(index::SubManagedIndex)
+    return SubChunkIndex(parent(index), unique(positions(index)))
+end
+function Base.length(index::SubManagedIndex)
+    return length(positions(index))
+end
+function Base.isempty(index::SubManagedIndex)
+    return isempty(positions(index))
+end
+function Base.show(io::IO, index::SubManagedIndex)
+    print(io,
+        "A view of $(typeof(parent(index))|>nameof) (id: $(indexid(parent(index)))) with $(length(index)) chunks")
+end
+Base.@propagate_inbounds function translate_positions_to_parent(
+        index::SubManagedIndex, pos::AbstractVector{<:Integer})
+    sub_positions = positions(index)
+    return sub_positions[pos]
+end
+
 # # CandidateChunks for Retrieval
 
 """
@@ -864,7 +944,18 @@ Base.@propagate_inbounds function Base.view(index::SubChunkIndex, cc::MultiCandi
 end
 # TODO: proper `view` -- `SubManagedIndex`?
 Base.@propagate_inbounds function Base.view(index::AbstractManagedIndex, cc::CandidateWithChunks)
-    return cc
+    @boundscheck let chk_vector = chunks(parent(index))
+        if !checkbounds(Bool, axes(chk_vector, 1), positions(cc))
+            ## Avoid printing huge position arrays, show the extremas of the attempted range
+            max_pos = extrema(positions(cc))
+            throw(BoundsError(chk_vector, max_pos))
+        end
+    end
+    pos = indexid(index) == indexid(cc) ? positions(cc) : Int[]
+    return SubManagedIndex(parent(index), pos)
+end
+Base.@propagate_inbounds function Base.view(index::SubManagedIndex, cc::CandidateWithChunks)
+    SubManagedIndex(index, cc)
 end
 Base.@propagate_inbounds function SubChunkIndex(index::SubChunkIndex, cc::CandidateChunks)
     pos = indexid(index) == indexid(cc) ? positions(cc) : Int[]
@@ -892,6 +983,18 @@ Base.@propagate_inbounds function SubChunkIndex(
     end
     return SubChunkIndex(parent(index), intersect_pos)
 end
+Base.@propagate_inbounds function SubManagedIndex(index::SubManagedIndex, cc::CandidateWithChunks)
+    pos = indexid(index) == indexid(cc) ? positions(cc) : Int[]
+    intersect_pos = intersect(pos, positions(index))
+    @boundscheck let chk_vector = chunks(parent(index))
+        if !checkbounds(Bool, axes(chk_vector, 1), intersect_pos)
+            ## Avoid printing huge position arrays, show the extremas of the attempted range
+            max_pos = extrema(intersect_pos)
+            throw(BoundsError(chk_vector, max_pos))
+        end
+    end
+    return SubManagedIndex(parent(index), intersect_pos)
+end
 
 ## Getindex