model-families.md

Model family selection

Prefer diverse underlying model families, not just diverse providers or gateways. A model target such as hyper/minimax-m3 has provider/gateway hyper, family MiniMax, and model M3.

Default preference

Prefer open-weight or otherwise cost-effective non-frontier-proprietary models unless the user pins a different target. Avoid known-proprietary labs like Anthropic or OpenAI by default because they are expensive and not necessary for the intended review mix.

Generally prefer review lanes from these particular models, or newer/larger, when available:

  • Qwen 3.7 Plus, preferably Max
  • GLM 5.1
  • Kimi K2.6
  • MiniMax M3
  • Mimi V2.5 Pro
  • DeepSeek V4 Pro

When multiple variants in a generation are available, generally prefer the largest or strongest available variant: Max over Plus over Flash, or Qwen 3.6 397B over Qwen 3.6 35B.

Roster fields

Record these for every active or skipped lane:

  • runner
  • runner invocation profile
  • exact candidate model ID
  • provider/gateway
  • underlying model family
  • generation
  • variant
  • intended role
  • reason selected or skipped