parallel-efficiency SKILL.md skillA
parallel-efficiency from jpcaparas/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jpcaparas/skills/parallel-efficiency@git:20261018.a890dc1Pins git:20261018.a890dc1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jpcaparas/skills
- Path
skills/research/parallel-efficiency/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261018.a890dc1, committed Oct 18, 2026
- Size
- 7,667 bytes
- Repository stars
- 56
- License
- none declared
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.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# parallel-efficiency Get the answer the user needs from Parallel with the cheapest product and setting that can deliver it, and never let a default or a forgotten job decide the bill. Prices and behaviour below are a **2026-10-18 snapshot** of Parallel's docs and pricing page plus a context-size spike through the Search MCP (`references/evidence.md`). Billing itself was not measured live: no API key was available. When a figure matters and looks stale, check `https://docs.parallel.ai/getting-started/pricing` and the response's `usage` array, trust those, and propose a sourced correction to the canonical skill rather than editing an installed copy. ## Hard rules 1. **Never rely on an expensive default.** Always send these fields explicitly: - Search and Image Search `mode`: unset means `advanced` at $5/1K. Send `"fast"` ($1/1K) unless the question needs multi-hop results. - Responses `reasoning.effort`: unset means `medium` at $50/1K. Send `"low"` ($10/1K) for fact lookups. - Task and Task Group `processor`: required. Start from the cheapest that fits (below). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jpcaparas/skills/parallel-efficiency@sha256:5b3255d827823138The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261018.a890dc1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 18, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
jpcaparas/skills · 56 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n7ss5ark24naghe4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpcaparas/skills/parallel-efficiency GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5b3255d827823138cf4902f47872274d2eae4fe7159d2b50937f502c4e43985a
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.