autoresearchclaw-hybrid-llm-opus-haiku-stage-split

AutoResearchClaw natively supports primary + fallback model configuration. Optimal configuration: Opus 4.6 for 8 critical reasoning stages (hypothesis generation, experiment design, paper writing, peer review — stages 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18), Haiku 4.5 for 15 routine stages (topic init, resource planning, export formatting). Stay within Anthropic ecosystem — do NOT use GPT-4o-mini even for routine stages. This delivers maximum intelligence quality where it matters with zero unnecessary token cost.