parallel-setup

A setup command for the Parallel command-line tool, which provides access to Parallel's web tools from a terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install the CLI, sign in with a login or API key, and verify that the command works.
Why use it?
It checks whether the tool is installed and helps resolve missing authentication or blocked installation steps.

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/parallel-web/parallel-cursor-plugin/parallel-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parallel-web/parallel-cursor-plugin
Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 350 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00015 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00035

Measured yesterday against content hash 3dad86c0f6fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

parallel-setup scanned grade C with 2 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 yesterday.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

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

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash
commands/parallel-setup.md · 73 lines

What it actually says

Parallel Plugin Setup

Step 1: Check if CLI is already installed

parallel-cli --version

If this prints a version, skip to Step 2: Authenticate.

Step 1b: Attempt installation

Try installing with the install script:

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

If that fails, try pipx:

pipx install "parallel-web-tools[cli]"
pipx ensurepath

After either install method, verify it worked:

parallel-cli --version

If installation fails

Tell the user to re-run /parallel-setup with sandbox mode disabled. Installation requires network and filesystem access that Cursor's sandbox may block.

Alternatively, they can install manually in their own terminal:

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

or:

pipx install "parallel-web-tools[cli]"
pipx ensurepath

They may need to add ~/.local/bin to PATH in their shell config (e.g. ~/.zshrc). Ask them to re-run /parallel-setup once installed.

Step 2: Authenticate

Check if already authenticated:

parallel-cli auth

If not authenticated, tell the user to run parallel-cli login in their terminal, or set PARALLEL_API_KEY in their environment.

Step 3: Verify

parallel-cli auth

Confirm the CLI is installed, authenticated, and ready to use.

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. yesterday First seen · 73 lines · 15 tokens per session scan C 3dad86c0f6fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

parallel-setup is a command published in the GitHub repository parallel-web/parallel-cursor-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 350 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.