Web search and page fetching for AI coding agents, through Parallel — plus Agent Skills for deep research, data enrichment, entity discovery, and web monitoring.
The plugin ships two things:
- A hosted MCP server (
parallel-search) providingweb_searchandweb_fetch. Anonymous and rate-limited: no account, API key, or CLI needed. It works the moment the plugin is installed. - CLI-backed skills for deep research, enrichment, FindAll, and Monitor. These run through
parallel-cliand need it installed, authenticated, and funded.
You can use the first without ever setting up the second.
Nothing, for web search and fetch. The bundled MCP server is anonymous.
The execution skills require parallel-cli (installed, authenticated, and funded). The parallel-cli-setup skill walks an agent through install, auth, balance, and skills install end-to-end — install the plugin/skills below, then run /parallel:parallel-cli-setup from your agent.
migrate-to-parallel updates an application's own web-data integration. It uses the appropriate Parallel API or SDK and needs PARALLEL_API_KEY only for an explicitly authorized live smoke test.
Use parallel-cli to install skills into Cursor, Cline, GitHub Copilot, and other compatible agents.
# Install all Parallel skills
parallel-cli skills installAvailable as a Claude Code Plugin Marketplace.
/plugin marketplace add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills
/plugin install parallel
# restart Claude Code before continuing!Web search and fetch work immediately after the restart — run /mcp to confirm
parallel-search is connected. No account or API key is required.
For the CLI-backed skills (deep research, enrichment, FindAll, Monitor), install and authenticate the CLI:
# this will install/update CLI and authenticate if not done already
/parallel:parallel-cli-setupInstall skills using the built-in skill installer (run inside Codex):
$skill-installer parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills
Then run the setup skill to install/auth the CLI:
/parallel:parallel-cli-setup
A human + machine-readable catalog is published at skills.parallel.ai.
Useful endpoints:
- skills.parallel.ai — human-friendly catalog and install instructions
- skills.parallel.ai/index.json — machine-readable skill index
https://skills.parallel.ai/<skill>/SKILL.md— live raw skill filehttps://skills.parallel.ai/<skill>/manifest.json— file manifest + checksumshttps://skills.parallel.ai/<skill>/versions.json— release history for that skillhttps://skills.parallel.ai/archives/<skill>/<version>.zip— immutable GitHub Release archive via CDN redirect
Skills follow the Agent Skills specification and double as Claude Code slash commands.
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| parallel-search-setup | Verify, use, and troubleshoot the bundled anonymous Search MCP server |
| parallel-mcp-setup | Set up authenticated Parallel MCP connections; Bifrost Search MCP is the first supported path |
| parallel-web-search | CLI-backed search for explicit CLI use or when MCP is unavailable |
| parallel-web-extract | CLI-backed extraction for explicit CLI use or when MCP is unavailable |
| choose-your-parallel-api | Choose the right Parallel API and configuration |
| parallel-deep-research | Comprehensive research and analysis |
| parallel-data-enrichment | Enrich lists of companies, people, products |
| parallel-findall | Discover entities matching a natural-language description |
| parallel-monitor | Continuously track the web for changes (with webhooks) |
| parallel-memory | Recall and manage saved Parallel runs |
| migrate-to-parallel | Migrate Exa, Tavily, Perplexity, or Firecrawl integrations to Parallel |
| parallel-cli-setup | Install/update CLI, authenticate, and handle balance |
| status | Check running research task status |
| result | Get completed research task result |
/parallel:parallel-web-search latest React 19 features
/parallel:parallel-web-extract https://docs.parallel.ai
/parallel:parallel-deep-research competitive landscape of AI code assistants
/parallel:parallel-data-enrichment Apple, Microsoft, Google - get CEO names
/parallel:parallel-findall AI startups that raised Series A in 2026
/parallel:parallel-monitor track price changes for the iPhone 16 Pro
/parallel:parallel-memory retrieve past research about AI code assistants
/parallel:migrate-to-parallel migrate this app from Tavily to Parallel
/parallel:migrate-to-parallel migrate this app from Perplexity to Parallel
/parallel:migrate-to-parallel migrate this app from Firecrawl to Parallel
/parallel:parallel-cli-setup
The bundled parallel-search MCP server is anonymous by design: web_search and
web_fetch work with no account, API key, or login, subject to free-tier rate
limits. The free tier is intended for personal agents, hobby projects, and
exploration.
For higher search limits, usage analytics, and production workloads, create an
account at platform.parallel.ai, then add a
separate authenticated Search MCP connection. The same service supports a
Parallel API key on https://search.parallel.ai/mcp or OAuth through
https://search.parallel.ai/mcp-oauth. Authenticated usage is billed under your
account's pricing and limits — see
parallel.ai/pricing.
Keep the plugin-provided connection anonymous rather than editing the installed
plugin. After the authenticated connection works, use /mcp to ensure only one
Parallel Search connection is enabled; if both appear, toggle the bundled
anonymous server off. See
parallel-search-setup for the upgrade
steps.
The CLI-backed skills are separate: deep research, enrichment, FindAll, and
Monitor run through parallel-cli against your own funded Parallel account and
are billed as ordinary API usage.
Parallel hosts the search service. Tool arguments sent to Parallel can include objectives, search queries, requested URLs, and optional session and model metadata. Parallel also receives standard connection and MCP client metadata. This data is handled under the Customer Terms and Privacy Policy. The MCP server does not automatically receive the rest of your conversation or local files, but an agent can include context in tool arguments when it is relevant. Do not send secrets, credentials, or sensitive local content through search or fetch tools.
The CLI-backed skills run parallel-cli locally using credentials you have
already configured. They send task inputs to Parallel's API under the same terms.
- Questions and bugs: open an issue with your client, version, and error message (leave out API keys and other credentials), or see the documentation.
- Product support: contact Parallel at support@parallel.ai.
- Security concerns: report privately to support@parallel.ai — see SECURITY.md. Please don't file security reports as public issues.
See MAINTAINERS.md for maintainer workflows, release process, and dev setup.
Claude Code:
git clone https://github.com/parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills.git
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/parallel-agent-skills
/parallel:parallel-cli-setupCodex:
git clone https://github.com/parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills.git
cd parallel-agent-skills
codex
# Skills are auto-discovered via .agents/skills/MIT