# migrate-to-parallel

Moves web-data integrations from Exa, Tavily, Perplexity or Firecrawl onto Parallel products while keeping app behavior intact. Handy when you swap search and scraping providers.

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- Author: parallel-web
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/migrate-to-parallel/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/migrate-to-parallel

## What it does

The skill treats migration as more than a working HTTP response. It walks request construction, response consumers, dependencies, environment variables, tests and docs, then checks what still points at the old provider.

Bundled with it are `SKILL.md`, per-provider references (`references/exa.md`, `references/tavily.md`, `references/perplexity.md`, `references/firecrawl.md`), Parallel product notes and a scanner at `scripts/scan_provider_usage.py`. The scanner relies on the Python standard library only, so Python 3.9 or newer has to be present. Without it you fall back to your harness's file-search tools.

Some capabilities have no equivalent. Embeddings on the Perplexity boundary stop the migration. So do full crawling, URL mapping, local file parsing, browser actions, screenshots and change tracking from Firecrawl. When a required behavior has no supported Parallel route, the skill halts before destructive edits and reports the exact gap.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --skill migrate-to-parallel -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/migrate-to-parallel/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/migrate-to-parallel/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --skill migrate-to-parallel -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/migrate-to-parallel/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --skill migrate-to-parallel -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/migrate-to-parallel/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills migrate-to-parallel
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/migrate-to-parallel/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --skill migrate-to-parallel -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --path skills/migrate-to-parallel
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/migrate-to-parallel/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills --skill migrate-to-parallel -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/migrate-to-parallel/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- swap an Exa SDK for Parallel without dropping filters
- port Tavily response parsing to new types
- audit a repo for leftover provider calls
- separate search from crawling when leaving Firecrawl
- finish and verify a migration someone else started

## Example prompts
- migrate our search from Tavily to Parallel, keep behavior the same
- run the scanner and show me where Firecrawl is still used
- finish the Exa migration: tests and docs are left

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: migrate-to-parallel
description: Migrate Exa, Tavily, Perplexity, or Firecrawl web-data integrations completely to the appropriate Parallel products while preserving application behavior. Use when replacing these providers' SDKs or REST calls, dependencies, environment variables, request parameters, response parsing, model tools, search-plus-scrape paths, full-content or answer-synthesis paths, tests, and documentation; separating unsupported research-index, crawl, browser, file-parse, monitor, or other non-search capabilities; auditing for leftover provider usage; or finishing and verifying an in-progress provider migration.
---

# Migrate to Parallel

Replace the provider boundary end to end. Treat a successful HTTP response as the midpoint, not completion: migrate request construction, response consumers, dependencies, configuration, tests, and operational behavior.

Resolve `<skill-root>` to the directory containing this `SKILL.md`. Resolve every bundled reference and script from that directory, regardless of the current working directory. The scanner uses only the Python standard library. If Python 3.9 or newer is unavailable, perform equivalent repository searches with the harness's file-search tools and state that the bundled scan was not run.

## Load the right references

1. Read [references/exa.md](references/exa.md) when the repository contains Exa.
2. Read [references/tavily.md](references/tavily.md) when the repository contains Tavily.
3. Read [references/perplexity.md](references/perplexity.md) when the repository contains Perplexity Search, Sonar, Agent API web tools, or a Perplexity search wrapper.
4. Read [references/firecrawl.md](references/firecrawl.md) when the repository contains Firecrawl Search, Scrape, Batch Scrape, Extract, Agent, Research Index, Crawl, Map, Parse, Browser, Interact, Monitor, or MCP usage.
5. Read [references/parallel-search.md](references/parallel-search.md) when any call may route to Search or needs query, filter, freshness, mode, or result-list migration.
6. Read [references/parallel-products.md](references/parallel-products.md) when any call may route to Extract, Chat, Task, or entity discovery, or needs streaming, structured output, or citations.
7. Read [references/integration-patterns.md](references/integration-patterns.md) when queries are generated dynamically, the provider is exposed as a model tool, provider response types escape into multiple modules, or the application needs full content or synthesized answers.
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