parallel-web-search

A web-search skill for finding current information online from several searches at once.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for web lookups and research questions, including targeted searches, result limits, date filters, and saved JSON output.
Why use it?
It gives research tasks a standard way to gather relevant results instead of relying on possibly outdated memory.

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/parallel-web/parallel-cursor-plugin/parallel-web-search
Any agent
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-cursor-plugin --skill parallel-web-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/parallel-web/parallel-cursor-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 906 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% 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 $0.00054 $0.00906
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00453
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00091

Measured yesterday against content hash 12439cdfa6b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

parallel-web-search 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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to parallel-web-search — 25 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.

skills/parallel-web-search/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search the web for: $ARGUMENTS

Command

Choose a short, descriptive filename based on the query (e.g., ai-chip-news, react-vs-vue). Use lowercase with hyphens, no spaces. Substitute it into the command inline$FILENAME and <keyword> below are placeholders, not shell variables; do not copy them verbatim.

parallel-cli search "$ARGUMENTS" -q "<keyword1>" -q "<keyword2>" --json --max-results 10 --excerpt-max-chars-total 27000 -o "/tmp/$FILENAME.json"

Concrete example for a query about React 19:

parallel-cli search "latest React 19 features and adoption" -q "React 19" -q "concurrent rendering" --json --max-results 10 --excerpt-max-chars-total 27000 -o "/tmp/react-19-features.json"

The first argument is the objective — a natural language description of what you're looking for. It replaces multiple keyword searches with a single call for broad or complex queries. Add -q flags for specific keyword queries to supplement the objective. The -o flag saves the full results to a JSON file for follow-up questions.

Options if needed:

  • --after-date YYYY-MM-DD for time-sensitive queries
  • --include-domains domain1.com,domain2.com to limit to specific sources
  • --exclude-domains domain.com to filter out noisy sources
  • --mode advanced for harder questions (multi-step, agentic search). Default basic is right for almost everything; only escalate when basic results are insufficient
  • --location us (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for geo-targeted results

Parsing results

Do not set max_output_tokens on the command execution — the output is already bounded by --max-results and --excerpt-max-chars-total. Capping output tokens will truncate the JSON and break parsing.

Prefer reading from the saved -o file, not stdout. Even bounded output regularly exceeds harness stdout limits and gets truncated. Read /tmp/$FILENAME.json for the authoritative payload. For each result, extract:

  • title, url, publish_date
  • Useful content from excerpts (skip navigation noise like menus, footers, "Skip to content")

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. yesterday First seen · 74 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 12439cdfa6b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

parallel-web-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository parallel-web/parallel-cursor-plugin (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 906 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to parallel-web-search, differing in 25 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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