parallel-monitor

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Continuously track the web for changes on a recurring cadence. Use when the user asks to 'monitor', 'track changes to', 'watch', or 'alert me when' something on the web changes — e.g., 'Track price changes for iPhone 16', 'Alert me when Tesla files a new 8-K', 'Monitor competitor pricing pages weekly'. Also use to list, inspect, update, or delete existing monitors.

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Sourceparallel-web/parallel-agent-skills

Added on2026-05-07

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add parallel-web/parallel-agent-skills parallel-monitor

SKILL.md Content

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Web Monitor

Action: $ARGUMENTS

Requires
parallel-cli
≥ 0.3.0 (the
monitor
command was added in 0.3.0). If
parallel-cli monitor
errors with
no such command
or similar, tell the user to run
parallel-cli update
(or
pipx upgrade parallel-web-tools
if installed via pipx), then retry.

What this skill does

Monitors are long-running, server-side jobs that re-check the web on a cadence and emit events when something changes. Unlike search/research/findall (one-shot lookups), monitors persist until deleted and can optionally fire a webhook on each event.

Decide the action

Parse the user's request and pick one:

Intent	Action
"Track / watch / monitor / alert me when X"	create
"What am I monitoring?" / "List monitors"	list
"What changed?" / "Show me events for monitor X"	events
"Show monitor X" / "Get details for X"	get
"Change cadence / query / webhook for X"	update
"Test the webhook" / "Fire a test event"	simulate (requires a webhook on the monitor)
"Show me the full payload for event group X"	event-group
"Stop / delete monitor X"	delete (always confirm before deleting)

Create a monitor

bash

parallel-cli monitor create "<query>" --cadence daily --json

Cadence options:

hourly

,

daily

(default),

weekly

,

every_two_weeks

. Match cadence to how often the source actually changes — hourly for prices/news, weekly for filings/staffing.

Optional flags:

```
--webhook https://example.com/hook
```
— POST events to a URL as they happen
```
--metadata '{"team":"competitive-intel"}'
```
— attach JSON metadata for your own bookkeeping
```
--output-schema '<json>'
```
— structure the event payload (advanced)

Parse the JSON to extract the

monitor_id

. Tell the user:

The monitor has been created with its ID
The cadence (so they know when to expect first event)
That events accumulate server-side — they can run
```
parallel-cli monitor events $MONITOR_ID
```
later to see what changed

If they configured a webhook, suggest testing it:

bash

parallel-cli monitor simulate "$MONITOR_ID"

simulate

requires a webhook to be configured on the monitor. Without one it errors with

Webhook not configured for this monitor

— do not run it on monitors created without

--webhook

.

List monitors

bash

parallel-cli monitor list -n 10 --json

Default to

-n 10

— accounts with many historical monitors can return megabytes of JSON otherwise. Raise the limit only if the user explicitly asks for "all" or a larger set. Present as a table: ID, query (truncated), cadence, created.

Note:
monitor list
is not guaranteed to be sorted newest-first, so a monitor you just created may not appear in the first page of results. If a user is verifying creation, prefer
monitor get $MONITOR_ID
(using the ID returned by create) over scanning the list.

View events for a monitor

bash

parallel-cli monitor events "$MONITOR_ID" --lookback 10d --json

Lookback format:

Nd

(days) or

Nw

(weeks). Default

10d

.

For deeper detail on a specific event group:

bash

parallel-cli monitor event-group "$MONITOR_ID" "$EVENT_GROUP_ID" --json

Summarize for the user: count of events in the period, then a bulleted list of what changed with timestamps. Cite source URLs from the event payload.

Get / update / delete

bash

parallel-cli monitor get "$MONITOR_ID" --json
parallel-cli monitor update "$MONITOR_ID" --cadence weekly --json
parallel-cli monitor delete "$MONITOR_ID" --json

Always confirm before deleting — deletion is permanent.

Setup

If

parallel-cli

is not found, install and authenticate:

bash

curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash

If unable to install that way, install via pipx instead:

bash

pipx install "parallel-web-tools[cli]"
pipx ensurepath

Then authenticate:

bash

parallel-cli login

Or set an API key:

export PARALLEL_API_KEY="your-key"

parallel-monitor

NPX Install

Tags

SKILL.md Content

Web Monitor

What this skill does

Decide the action

Create a monitor

List monitors

View events for a monitor

Get / update / delete

Setup