choose-your-parallel-api
choose-your-parallel-api is an agent skill published by parallel-web, listed under research. It lives in the parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills repository, which has 91 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Select the appropriate Parallel API and configuration for optimizing cost, latency, and answer quality when integrating live web data into applications. This includes current events, prices, chat responses, and deep research tasks. It also helps in choosing between different API modes and processors when existing integrations are slow, expensive, or incomplete.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills
Maintenance
Choose the right Parallel API and configuration for cost, latency, and answer quality. Use when adding live web data to an app: current events and prices, a cited answer in a chat, grounding an agent in sources it can read in full, reading a URL or PDF, deep research reports, researching or enriching every row of a list or CRM. Use when picking among Search and Extract, Responses, and Task, or when choosing a search mode, reasoning effort, or Task processor. Also use when an integration is too slow, costs more than expected, or misses answers that are on the web.
choose-your-parallel-api compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| choose-your-parallel-api (this page) | parallel-web | Choose the right Parallel API and configuration for cost, latency, and answer quality. Use when adding live w… | 91 | 2026-10-21 |
| migrate-to-parallel(same repository) | parallel-web | Migrate Exa, Tavily, Perplexity, or Firecrawl web-data integrations completely to the appropriate Parallel pr… | 91 | 2026-10-21 |
| parallel-data-enrichment(same repository) | parallel-web | Bulk data enrichment. Adds web-sourced fields (CEO names, funding, contact info) to lists of companies, peopl… | 91 | 2026-10-21 |
| parallel-deep-research(same repository) | parallel-web | ONLY use when user explicitly says 'deep research', 'exhaustive', 'comprehensive report', or 'thorough invest… | 91 | 2026-10-21 |
| parallel-findall(same repository) | parallel-web | Discover entities (companies, people, products, etc.) matching a natural-language description. Use when the u… | 91 | 2026-10-21 |
| parallel-web-search(same repository) | parallel-web | CLI-backed web search. Use when the user explicitly invokes this skill, needs CLI-only controls or saved JSON… | 91 | 2026-10-21 |
| result(same repository) | parallel-web | Get completed research task result by run ID | 91 | 2026-10-21 |
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Common questions about choose-your-parallel-api
- What does choose-your-parallel-api do?
- Select the appropriate Parallel API and configuration for optimizing cost, latency, and answer quality when integrating live web data into applications. This includes current events, prices, chat responses, and deep research tasks. It also helps in choosing between different API modes and processors when existing integrations are slow, expensive, or incomplete.
- How do I install choose-your-parallel-api?
- Run npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes choose-your-parallel-api?
- parallel-web.
- Is choose-your-parallel-api maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 91 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-21. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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