Parallel Agent Skills

Agent Skills for Parallel — web search, content extraction, deep research, and data enrichment for AI coding agents.

Prerequisites

1. Install the CLI

   curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash

2. Get an API key at parallel.ai and set it as an environment variable:

   export PARALLEL_API_KEY="your-key"

   Or authenticate interactively after installing the CLI:

   parallel-cli login

3. Install the skills into your AI agent (see below).

Installation

Agent Skills

Use the Vercel Skills CLI to install skills into Cursor, Cline, GitHub Copilot, and 30+ other agents.

# Install all skills globally (available in all projects)
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --all --global

# Or install to current project only
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --all

# Install a specific skill
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --skill parallel-web-search

# Preview available skills
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --list

Claude Code

Available as a Claude Code Plugin Marketplace.

/plugin marketplace add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills
/plugin install parallel
# restart Claude Code before continuing!

# this will install the CLI and authenticate if not done already
/parallel:setup

Skills

Skills follow the Agent Skills specification.

• parallel-web-search: Current events, fact-checking, web search
• parallel-web-extract: Extract content from URLs, articles, PDFs
• parallel-deep-research: Comprehensive research and analysis
• parallel-data-enrichment: Enrich lists of companies, people, products

Commands

Claude Code slash commands:

Command	Description
/parallel:setup	Install CLI and authenticate
/parallel:search <query>	Search the web
/parallel:extract <url>	Extract content from URL
/parallel:research <topic>	Deep research on a topic
/parallel:enrich <data>	Enrich data with web intelligence
/parallel:status <run_id>	Check task status
/parallel:result <run_id>	Get task results

Examples

/parallel:search latest React 19 features
/parallel:extract https://docs.parallel.ai
/parallel:research competitive landscape of AI code assistants
/parallel:enrich Apple, Microsoft, Google - get CEO names

Resources

• Documentation
• API Platform
• parallel-cli
• Pricing

Local Development

git clone https://github.com/parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills.git
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/parallel-agent-skills
/parallel:setup

Releasing a New Version

Claude Code plugins are pinned to commit SHAs, and npx skills add pulls the latest from main.

1. Bump the version in all three locations:
   • .claude-plugin/plugin.json → version
   • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json → metadata.version
   • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json → plugins[0].version
2. Commit and push to main

License

MIT