[georgeatparallel]

Summary

• Give research_web free web search and page extraction with Parallel Search MCP, powered by Fast mode with no account or API key. Unconfigured projects select it automatically; saved Tavily/custom choices and credentials stay in effect.
• Make saved enabled: false stop web research, while preserving profile permissions.

On Artificial Analysis’s Search API benchmark, Parallel Fast scores 0.802 DeepSearchQA F1 versus 0.744 for Tavily Basic. Source.

I work at Parallel.

Type of change

• New feature
• Test
• Docs / SKILL.md

Changes

File	Change
parallel-search.ts, web-search.ts	MCP transport and provider routing
agent-tools.ts, researcher.ts, production-capabilities.ts	Cancellable research and saved report consumption
project.ts, ProjectSettings.tsx	Provider selection and disable controls
research-search.flow.test.ts	Production dispatcher regression coverage
docs/research-search.md, READMEs, manifests	Setup guidance and MCP dependency

Test plan

• pnpm build
• pnpm typecheck
• pnpm test
• Manual verification: anonymous research through the production dispatcher collected two sources, saved a report, and consumed it with workspace__read.