oracle-researchclaw-hybrid-llm-opus-haiku-stage-routing

AutoResearchClaw natively supports primary + fallback model configuration. The correct hybrid strategy is Opus 4.6 for 8 critical reasoning stages (hypothesis generation, paper writing, peer review — stages 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18) and Haiku 4.5 for 15 routine stages (topic init, resource planning, export, status). Use Haiku 4.5 not GPT-4o-mini — stays within the Anthropic ecosystem, avoids cross-vendor API key management. This achieves maximum intelligence where it matters with zero wasted tokens.