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Web search and page fetching for AI coding agents, through Parallel (opens in a new tab) — plus Agent Skills (opens in a new tab) for deep research, data enrichment, entity discovery, and web monitoring.
The plugin ships two things:
parallel-search) providing web_search and web_fetch. Anonymous and rate-limited: no account, API key, or CLI needed. It works the moment the plugin is installed.parallel-cli and 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 (opens in a new tab).
/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-skillsThen run the setup skill to install/auth the CLI:
/parallel:parallel-cli-setupA human + machine-readable catalog is published at skills.parallel.ai (opens in a new tab).
Useful endpoints:
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 redirectSkills follow the Agent Skills (opens in a new tab) 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-setupThe 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 (opens in a new tab), 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 (opens in a new tab).
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 (opens in a new tab) and Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab). 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.
See MAINTAINERS.md (opens in a new tab) 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
main, last pushed 22 September 2026.SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. One layout observed: skills/*/SKILL.md.h1 and no skipped levels:.claude-plugin/marketplace.json by Parallel Web Systems, declaring 1 plugin. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree./parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.