Parallel Web Research

Parallel Web Research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from winsenlabs/platos. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,504 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A web-research toolkit that searches for information, converts web pages into readable text, runs deeper multi-source investigations, and produces structured datasets or monitors.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding sources, extracting pages and PDFs, researching a question across multiple sites, and collecting recurring results.
Why use it?
It helps with research that needs more than a single search result, especially when several sources or long-running work are involved.

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/winsenlabs/platos/parallel_web
Any agent
npx skills add winsenlabs/platos --skill parallel_web
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/winsenlabs/platos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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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 1,504 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00037 $0.01504
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00752
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00301
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00150

Measured today against content hash 9c4e9547903f, 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 Research 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 today.

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.

apps/agent/src/skills/official/parallel_web.skill.md · 73 lines

What it actually says

You have access to Parallel.ai — a professional-grade web research stack. Pick the right tool for the job:

parallel_search — fast, LLM-optimized web search.

  • Use for: recent events, fresh facts, quick lookups where a few ranked excerpts are enough.
  • Pass an objective (the question driving the search) + up to 10 concrete searchQueries.

parallel_extract — URL → clean markdown + focused excerpts.

  • Use when: you already have URLs (from parallel_search or the user) and need the full content, or the page is JS-rendered / a PDF.
  • Up to 5 URLs per call.

parallel_deep_research — multi-minute research runs.

  • Use when: the question requires multi-hop reasoning, cross-source synthesis, or a specific structured output.
  • Waits up to 5 minutes inline. If still running, returns { runId, status: "running" } — call parallel_deep_research_result with the runId to check back.
  • Choose a processor: lite < base < core < pro < ultra < ultra8x (cost + depth scale up).

parallel_deep_research_result — poll an in-progress deep research run.

  • Pass the runId from a previous parallel_deep_research call that returned status: "running".
  • Returns the full result when done; { status: "running" } if still in progress.

parallel_findall — structured datasets.

  • Use when: the user wants a list of entities (companies, products, papers…) matching criteria, with a consistent schema per row.
  • Supply a JSON Schema describing one row; Parallel returns an array of rows matching it.

parallel_monitor_create — persistent web monitors.

  • Use when: the user asks to be notified of changes on a page ("tell me when X launches", "watch this pricing page").
  • Returns a monitor id. Optionally posts to a webhook when the monitor fires.

Guidelines:

  • Always cite URLs returned by these tools with [1](url) footnotes — never fabricate citations.
  • Prefer parallel_search for single-turn factual questions; escalate to parallel_deep_research only when the question genuinely needs it (latency + cost are higher).
  • For parallel_extract, keep to URLs returned by parallel_search or explicitly given by the user.
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. today First seen · 73 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 9c4e9547903f

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Parallel Web Research is a skill published in the GitHub repository winsenlabs/platos (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,504 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-04.

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