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choose-your-parallel-api from parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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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…
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# Choose the right Parallel API and configuration This skill covers four Parallel APIs for adding web data to an app. Search finds pages, Extract reads them, Responses answers a question, Task fills a schema. **Search and Extract are one pattern, not two choices.** Search locates the pages and returns excerpts; Extract returns the full content of the ones worth reading. Most agent integrations want both. Choose once, while writing the integration — not on every request. A live classifier in the request path buys flexibility nobody asked for and charges a model round-trip for it on every call. Decide here; hard-code the result. Most disappointing results come from choosing the wrong API or configuration, not from the underlying quality: the right API at the wrong tier, or the right tier with the wrong knobs. Choose the API first, tier second, knobs third — in that order. ## Setup `PARALLEL_API_KEY` is the connection secret, server side. ## Step 1 — Know the available surface ```text POST /v1/search # find pages POST /v1/extract # read pages POST /v1/responses # cited answer, synchronous …
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parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills · 90 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
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