parallel-cli

parallel-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,558 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of parallel-cli, MIT.

A command-line interface for Parallel, a paid web-research service with a free tier. It supports searches, page extraction, deeper research jobs, data enrichment, finding entities, and monitoring workflows in machine-readable JSON.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when Parallel is specifically requested, or for web research, extracting information, enriching records, discovering entities, and running asynchronous monitoring jobs.
Why use it?
It helps when a simple web search or page extraction is not enough and the work needs a multi-step or long-running process. Non-interactive commands and saved interaction IDs make these jobs usable by coding agents.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel/parallel-cli
Any agent
npx skills add nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel --skill parallel-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel

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 2,558 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% 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 $0.00037 $0.02558
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01279
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00512
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00256

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5c6f93cdba11, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

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

100% identical to parallel-cli — 0 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 · 391 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 391 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 · 391 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. 4d ago First seen · 391 lines · 37 tokens per session scan C 5c6f93cdba11

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parallel-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository nativ3ai/hermes-agent-camel (195 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,558 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 100% identical to parallel-cli, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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