autoresearchclaw-is-paper-factory-not-general-research

AutoResearchClaw (v0.4.0) is an academic paper factory — its purpose is topic-to-conference-ready-paper (LaTeX, BibTeX, peer review simulation), not a general research engine. The Oracle AutoResearch skill (v2.5.0) is domain-agnostic optimization/research, while AutoResearchClaw covers 23 stages across 8 phases to produce NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR-quality papers. Treating these as competing systems is a framing error — they are complementary and designed to co-exist.