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The Parallel plugin for Claude Code gives your coding agent access to live web search, content extraction, deep research, and data enrichment — all available as slash commands and automatic skills directly inside Claude Code.
View the complete repository for this plugin here

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Features

  • Web Search: Fast, real-time search for current events, documentation lookups, and fact-checking
  • Content Extraction: Clean content extraction from any URL, including JavaScript-heavy sites and PDFs
  • Deep Research: Exhaustive, multi-source research reports with configurable depth and processing power
  • Data Enrichment: Bulk enrichment of companies, people, or products with web-sourced fields like CEO names, funding, and contact info

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Prerequisites

1

Install the Parallel CLI

curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash
2

Get your API key

Get your API key from Parallel and set it as an environment variable:
export PARALLEL_API_KEY="your-api-key"

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Installation

Install the plugin from the Claude Code Plugin Marketplace: 
/plugin marketplace add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills
/plugin install parallel
Then run the setup command to verify the CLI is installed and authenticated: 
/parallel:setup

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Slash Commands

Once installed, the following commands are available in Claude Code:
CommandDescription
/parallel:search <query>Search the web for current information
/parallel:extract <url>Extract content from a URL
/parallel:research <topic>Run a deep research task
/parallel:enrich <data>Enrich a list of entities with web data
/parallel:status <run_id>Check the status of a research task
/parallel:result <run_id>Get the results of a completed research task
/parallel:setupInstall CLI and authenticate

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Usage

Beyond slash commands, the plugin also installs skills that Claude Code uses automatically based on context:
  • Ask a question that needs current information and Claude will search the web
  • Paste a URL and ask Claude to read it — it will extract the content
  • Ask for exhaustive research on a topic and Claude will run a deep research task
  • Give Claude a list of companies and ask it to find their CEOs — it will use data enrichment

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Learn More

For detailed documentation, skill definitions, and contribution guidelines, see the parallel-agent-skills repository on GitHub. For Agent Skills support with other coding agents (Cursor, Cline, Copilot, etc.), see the Agent Skills integration.