parallel-cli

parallel-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sairam0424/MindForge. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,504 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of parallel-cli, MIT.

A command-line tool for web search, page extraction, research, company or person data enrichment, entity discovery, and monitoring through Parallel, a paid online service with a free tier. It returns results in formats suited to coding agents and can run longer jobs asynchronously.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for running structured searches, extracting information from websites, conducting deeper research, finding entities, enriching records, and monitoring changes.
Why use it?
It brings several web-research tasks into one terminal workflow and lets an agent continue or check jobs that take time. It is useful when a simple search or page fetch is not enough.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for running structured searches, extracting information from websites, conducting deeper research, finding entities, enriching records, and monitoring changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sairam0424/mindforge/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 sairam0424/MindForge --skill parallel-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sairam0424/MindForge

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 2,504 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 94% 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 $0.02504
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01252
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00501
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00250

Measured 6d ago against content hash c7fb6171f9e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 6d 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

94% identical to parallel-cli — 23 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.

.agent/skills/parallel-cli/SKILL.md · 385 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 385 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 a core capability.

Important expectations:

  • Parallel is a paid service with a free tier, not a fully free local tool.
  • It overlaps with native WebSearch / WebFetch, 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 native WebSearch / WebFetch 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

Headless / SSH / CI:

Read the full file on GitHub · 385 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. 6d ago First seen · 385 lines · 37 tokens per session scan C c7fb6171f9e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

parallel-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository sairam0424/MindForge (0 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,504 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 94% identical to parallel-cli, differing in 23 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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