choose-your-parallel-api

Choose the right Parallel API and configuration for cost.

What this skill does for you

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.

Quoted from the skill description in the pinned source

Who made it

Publisherparallel-web

Repositoryparallel-agent-skills

Installs337as of Sep 27, 2026

Use it with Edge

Set up Edge for me: read getedge.cc/SKILL.md and follow it. Then use Edge to load the choose-your-parallel-api skill from parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.

Or read the skill source first.

Security evidence

Security state at 2026-09-30: reviewed. State definitions. This records static evidence for this revision; live load eligibility is checked again.

3 static scans, 0 counted findings. The listed scanners recorded the results shown for this package revision.

Scanner	Date	Result
Edge static checks	2026-09-27	Pass
Cisco skill-scanner	2026-09-27	Pass
Semgrep Edge rules	2026-09-27	Pass

Static scans check the code, not how well the skill works.

Scanner scope, raw findings and mirrored provider records

Edge static checks (Edge-run): edge-static/1.0.1. Scope: Static patterns for remote execution, credentials with network sends, obfuscation, prompt overrides, hidden Unicode, binaries and persistence. Revision: 8fc1fc426e7988f63b635f2ad40bedc54d0cbb34. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Cisco skill-scanner (Edge-run): cisco-skill-scanner/2.1.0. Scope: Local static, YARA, pipeline and behavioral analyzers; no LLM or AI Defense analysis. Revision: 8fc1fc426e7988f63b635f2ad40bedc54d0cbb34. Raw findings: 1. Counted findings: .

Semgrep Edge rules (Edge-run): semgrep/1.178.0+edge-rules.c15016a36fd3+offline-v1. Scope: Six Edge-authored static rules with Semgrep CE; offline execution and metrics disabled. Semgrep-maintained rules excluded. Revision: 8fc1fc426e7988f63b635f2ad40bedc54d0cbb34. Raw findings: . Counted findings: .

Source and licence

Repository: https://github.com/parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills
Pinned skill file: View source at revision
Revision: 8fc1fc426e7988f63b635f2ad40bedc54d0cbb34
Package hash: sha256:431ac2f86cedc3da1f07f525ea6073710514ebf64d68a52964ffc8d4cfb57a6b
Licence: MIT