parallel-monitor

parallel-monitor is a skill for Claude Code from parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (1,121 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A service for repeatedly checking web pages or searches on a schedule and reporting detected changes. Unlike a one-time search, a monitor continues running until it is stopped.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, list, inspect, update, trigger, or cancel web monitors, such as tracking competitor prices or alerts. Detected changes can optionally be sent through a webhook, a URL that receives automated notifications.
Why use it?
It removes the need to revisit the same web sources manually and remember to compare old and new results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the parallel-agent-skills plugin — 11 skills, 1 agent shipped together

not rated 73repo 27d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 96 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to create, list, inspect, update, trigger, or cancel web monitors, such as tracking competitor prices or alerts. Detected changes can optionally be sent through a webhook, a URL that receives automated notifications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills/parallel-monitor
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 parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --skill parallel-monitor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install parallel-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,121 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 23 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 23 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00096 $0.01121
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00561
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00224
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00112

Measured 11d ago against content hash b36ca3868987, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parallel-monitor 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 11d 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.

skills/parallel-monitor/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Web Monitor

Action: $ARGUMENTS

Requires parallel-cli ≥ 0.4.0 for the GA Monitor commands. If a Monitor command or option is missing, tell the user to update through their installation method (see https://docs.parallel.ai/integrations/cli), then retry.

What this skill does

Monitors are long-running, server-side jobs that re-check the web on a cadence and emit events when something changes. Unlike search/research/findall (one-shot lookups), monitors persist until cancelled and can optionally deliver detected events through a webhook.

Decide the action

Parse the user's request and pick one:

Intent Action
"Track / watch / monitor / alert me when X" create
"What am I monitoring?" / "List monitors" list
"What changed?" / "Show me events for monitor X" events
"Show monitor X" / "Get details for X" get
"Change cadence / webhook for X" update
"Check monitor X now" / "Run it now" trigger
"Show me the full payload for event group X" events with --event-group-id
"Stop / delete monitor X" cancel (always confirm before cancelling)

Create a monitor

parallel-cli monitor create "<query>" --frequency 1d --json

Frequency accepts <n><unit> with h, d, or w (for example 1h, 1d, or 1w). The aliases hourly, daily, weekly, and every_two_weeks are also accepted. Match cadence to how often the source actually changes — hourly for prices/news, weekly for filings/staffing.

Optional flags:

  • --webhook https://example.com/hook — deliver detected events to a URL
  • --metadata '{"team":"competitive-intel"}' — attach JSON metadata for your own bookkeeping
  • --output-schema '<json>' — structure the event payload (advanced)

Parse the JSON to extract the monitor_id. Tell the user:

  • The monitor has been created with its ID
  • The frequency (so they know how often the monitor checks)
  • That recent events are available server-side — they can run parallel-cli monitor events $MONITOR_ID later to see what changed

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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. 11d ago First seen · 101 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A b36ca3868987

Subscribe to this mod's changes

parallel-monitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills (73 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 1,121 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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