Does Clawdbot consume Claude tokens while being Silent in a whatsapp group

If a Clawdbot is in multiple whatsapp group, but it does "nothing" unless it gets tagged, does it consume tokens for being silent?

If Clawdbot consumes by just monitoring the streams of chat, is it optimal to use Haiku to monitor, and if a chat is "relevant" and "requires response", then only it triggers the process which uses the Opus 4.5 model instead?

Trying to optimise the tokens consumed to only use Opus 4.5 when real thinking needed, and everything else delegate to Haiku.

@Krill ๐Ÿฆ Breakdown all processes that I can change to Haiku that is not a critical reasoning operation, especially if it's just monitoring that I need to explicitly declare in AGENTS.md.
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