Turns out I misinterpreted the behavior of a ruby method with a default being passed nil so I assumed :parallel was effectively defaulting to true when it is the opposite.
Vagrant Core Plugins
These are plugins that ship with Vagrant. Vagrant core uses its own plugin system to power a lot of the core pieces that ship with Vagrant. Each plugin will have its own README which explains its specific role.
Generate proto
grpc_tools_ruby_protoc -I . --ruby_out=gen/plugin --grpc_out=gen/plugin ./plugin_server.proto