parallel-research

parallel-research is a command for coding agents from ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff. It costs 4 tokens per session (508 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that splits a research question or decision among several independent helpers. Some investigate outside sources, while others inspect the local codebase and compare practical options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research standards, recent changes, benchmarks, or official documentation; inspect relevant files and tests; and compare implementation choices, risks, edge cases, and maintenance costs.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent switching between web research, documentation, repository files, and tradeoff analysis. Separate findings help create an answer based on both external evidence and local constraints.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff/parallel-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff

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README.md
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Per session 4 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 508 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00004 $0.00508
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00254
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00102
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00051

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7a279437a1ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parallel-research scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/parallel-research.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Launch parallel research subagents to build a grounded answer to the current question or decision.

Use fresh context, not forked context, unless I explicitly ask for forked context. Researchers and scouts should inspect sources directly instead of relying on the main conversation history.

Use a combination of researcher and scout subagents:

  • Use researcher for web, docs, standards, ecosystem, recent changes, benchmarks, and primary-source evidence.
  • Use scout for local codebase context, existing implementation patterns, repo constraints, and files that would be affected.

Give each subagent a distinct angle. Unless I specify angles, use these three:

  1. External evidence Use researcher to find current, authoritative sources: official docs, specs, release notes, benchmarks, issue threads, or primary explanations.

  2. Local code context Use scout to inspect the repository for relevant files, existing patterns, constraints, tests, and likely integration points.

  3. Practical tradeoffs Use researcher or scout, whichever fits the question, to compare options, risks, edge cases, maintenance cost, and what would be easiest to validate.

Adapt the angles when the question calls for it:

  • Library/API questions: include official docs and recent examples.
  • Architecture decisions: include local module boundaries, dependency direction, and migration cost.
  • Debugging questions: include likely failure modes, local call paths, and exact error evidence.
  • UI/product questions: include user flow, accessibility, design precedent, and implementation constraints.
  • Time-sensitive topics: include a recent-developments angle and prefer 2026/2025 sources.

Prefer two or three strong subagents over many vague ones. The parent agent should frame the question and assign angles; the child agents should research or scout, not invent broad plans.

Ask each subagent to return concise findings with evidence:

  • file paths and line ranges for local findings
  • source links for external findings
  • confidence level and gaps
  • recommended next step or decision implication

Do not ask subagents to edit files. This is a research pass only unless I explicitly ask for implementation.

After the subagents return, synthesize the answer into:

  • what we know
  • what the local codebase implies
  • tradeoffs and risks
  • gaps or assumptions
  • the recommended next move

If findings disagree, call out the disagreement instead of smoothing it over.

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Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 51 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 7a279437a1ec

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parallel-research is a command published in the GitHub repository ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 508 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.