parallel-cli

parallel-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cyborg-garden/hermes-agent-mt. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,569 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of parallel-cli, MIT.

A command-line tool for web search, page extraction, deep research, data enrichment, entity discovery, and monitoring through the Parallel service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for agent-driven searches, extracting information from pages, researching topics, enriching records, finding entities, or monitoring changes over time.
Why use it?
It combines multi-step web research tasks in one workflow and can return structured JSON for automation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for agent-driven searches, extracting information from pages, researching topics, enriching records, finding entities, or monitoring changes over time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cyborg-garden/hermes-agent-mt/parallel-cli
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.

Any agent
npx skills add cyborg-garden/hermes-agent-mt --skill parallel-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cyborg-garden/hermes-agent-mt

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,569 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00037 $0.02569
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01285
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00514
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00257

Measured 3d ago against content hash 59245b30f3d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

parallel-cli 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 3d 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.

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
Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to parallel-cli — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

optional-skills/research/parallel-cli/SKILL.md · 392 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 392 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Parallel CLI

Use parallel-cli when the user explicitly wants Parallel, or when a terminal-native workflow would benefit from Parallel's vendor-specific stack for web search, extraction, deep research, enrichment, entity discovery, or monitoring.

This is an optional third-party workflow, not a Hermes core capability.

Important expectations:

  • Parallel is a paid service with a free tier, not a fully free local tool.
  • It overlaps with Hermes native web_search / web_extract, so do not prefer it by default for ordinary lookups.
  • Prefer this skill when the user mentions Parallel specifically or needs capabilities like Parallel's enrichment, FindAll, or monitor workflows.

parallel-cli is designed for agents:

  • JSON output via --json
  • Non-interactive command execution
  • Async long-running jobs with --no-wait, status, and poll
  • Context chaining with --previous-interaction-id
  • Search, extract, research, enrichment, entity discovery, and monitoring in one CLI

When to use it

Prefer this skill when:

  • The user explicitly mentions Parallel or parallel-cli
  • The task needs richer workflows than a simple one-shot search/extract pass
  • You need async deep research jobs that can be launched and polled later
  • You need structured enrichment, FindAll entity discovery, or monitoring

Prefer Hermes native web_search / web_extract for quick one-off lookups when Parallel is not specifically requested.

Installation

Try the least invasive install path available for the environment.

Homebrew

brew install parallel-web/tap/parallel-cli

npm

npm install -g parallel-web-cli

Python package

pip install "parallel-web-tools[cli]"

Standalone installer

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

If you want an isolated Python install, pipx can also work:

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

Authentication

Interactive login:

parallel-cli login

Read the full file on GitHub · 392 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 392 lines · 37 tokens per session scan C 59245b30f3d9

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parallel-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository cyborg-garden/hermes-agent-mt (13 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,569 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 95% identical to parallel-cli, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.