parallel-efficiency

90 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By jpcaparas/skills (GitHub) · research · 57 stars · scanned at commit c95f32e

Uses Parallel (parallel.ai) Search, Extract, Task, Task Group, FindAll, Entity Search, Responses, and Monitor APIs at the lowest sensible cost. Use when asked to search or research with Parallel, run Parallel tasks or FindAll, estimate or cut Parallel spend, or investigate a Parallel bill. Overrides expensive defaults and prices requests before sending. Do NOT use for other search providers or non-Parallel deep research.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

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Found in 1 place.

skills/research/parallel-efficiency/SKILL.md, line 24python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/parallel_cost.py estimate tasks/runs body.json --budget-usd 0.10

Sends data to these websites: api.parallel.ai

The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 14 places.

skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/evidence.md, line 31curl -sS https://api.parallel.ai/v1/search -H "x-api-key: $PARALLEL_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 35curl -sS "$P/v1/search" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 50curl -sS "$P/v1/extract" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{

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skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 63curl -sS "$P/v1/responses" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 75curl -sS "$P/v1/tasks/runs" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 81curl -sS "$P/v1/tasks/runs/$(jq -r .run_id run.json)/result" -H "$AUTH" > result.json # blocks; free
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 91curl -sS -X POST "$P/v1/tasks/groups" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{}' > group.json
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 94curl -sS -X POST "$P/v1/tasks/groups/$G/runs" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d @inputs.json
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 95curl -sS "$P/v1/tasks/groups/$G" -H "$AUTH" # status, free
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 105curl -sS "$P/v1beta/findall/entity-search" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 113curl -sS "$P/v1beta/findall/runs" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 118curl -sS -X POST "$P/v1beta/findall/runs/$RUN/extend" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{"additional_match_limit": 20}'
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 127curl -sS "$P/v1/monitors" -H "$AUTH" -H "$JSON" -d '{
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/references/recipes.md, line 131curl -sS -X POST "$P/v1/monitors/$MON/cancel" -H "$AUTH" # irreversible; stops billing

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'parallel-efficiency' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'parallel-efficiency' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named parallel-efficiency already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jpcaparas/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'c95f32eca37fdd414431c43ee102e7738f341b74' -- 'skills/research/parallel-efficiency' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/research/parallel-efficiency' ~/.agents/skills/'parallel-efficiency' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'parallel-efficiency' ~/.claude/skills/'parallel-efficiency' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-07	`c95f32e`	100