Install Parallel Agent Skills

Use the Parallel CLI or npx skills to give Cursor, Cline, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and 30+ AI coding agents Parallel web search, extraction, deep research, and data enrichment.

For AI agents: a documentation index is available at https://docs.parallel.ai/llms.txt. The full text of all docs is at https://docs.parallel.ai/llms-full.txt. You may also fetch any page as Markdown by appending .md to its URL or sending Accept: text/markdown.

Agent Skills let you add Parallel’s capabilities to AI coding agents like Cursor, Cline, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and 30+ other tools. Install and update skills with the Parallel CLI, or use a single npx skills add command via the Agent Skills CLI. Skills are lightweight, declarative integrations that give your agent access to live web data without writing any code.

View the complete repository for this integration here

Available Skills

Skill	Description
parallel-web-search	Fast web search for current events, fact-checking, and lookups
parallel-web-extract	Extract clean content from URLs, including JavaScript-heavy sites and PDFs
parallel-deep-research	Exhaustive, multi-source research reports with configurable depth
parallel-data-enrichment	Bulk enrichment of companies, people, or products with web-sourced data

See the published skill catalog for the complete, current list.

Prerequisites

Most skills require the Parallel CLI to run. The npx installer only requires Node.js to install the skill definitions, so you can set up the CLI afterward.

1. Install the Parallel CLI

   Install the Parallel CLI via pipx:

   pipx install "parallel-web-tools[cli]" && pipx ensurepath
   

   See the CLI docs for uv, Homebrew, npm, and other installation methods.

2. Authenticate

   parallel-cli login
   # or
   export PARALLEL_API_KEY="your_api_key"
   

   See the CLI docs for other authentication methods.

Installation

Install and update with the Parallel CLI

Install or update all skills globally:

parallel-cli skills install

To install or update skills only for the current project:

parallel-cli skills install --project

Global installs use ~/.agents/skills; project installs use <project>/.agents/skills. When Claude Code is detected, skills are also installed in the corresponding .claude/skills directory. Skills not managed by the Parallel CLI are not overwritten or removed.

For a clean reinstall, run parallel-cli skills reinstall. Add --project to reinstall project-local skills.

Install with npx

The Agent Skills CLI is a lightweight, Node-only alternative that supports agent-specific skill directories.

Install all skills globally so they’re available in every project:

npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --all --global

Or install a specific skill:

npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --skill parallel-web-search

To see all available skills before installing:

npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --list

Usage

Once installed, skills are automatically available to your agent. No additional configuration is needed — your agent will use them when appropriate based on your prompts.

• Web search is used by default for any research, lookup, or question needing current information
• Extract is used when your agent needs to fetch content from a specific URL
• Deep research is triggered when you explicitly request exhaustive or comprehensive research
• Data enrichment is used for bulk enrichment of lists of companies, people, or products

Supported Agents

Agent Skills work with any tool that supports the Vercel Skills CLI, including:

• Cursor
• Cline
• GitHub Copilot
• Windsurf
• And 30+ other agents

For Claude Code, you can also use the Claude Code Plugin Marketplace integration.

Learn More

For detailed skill documentation, configuration options, and local development instructions, see the parallel-agent-skills repository on GitHub.