# Optimize

> Analyze a codebase and produce an optimal HawkScan setup — tech flags, scan-policy plugin selection, and stackhawk.yml corrections — then apply it as a non-destructive trial, run ONE trial scan, and promote or discard. Use when the user asks to "optimize my scan", "tune HawkScan", "make my scan faster", "reduce false positives", "pick the right plugins/policy for my app", or invokes /optimize. Also invoked automatically by the hawkscan skill once at onboarding to set up the scan policy + tech flags (Setup mode), and re-runnable anytime via /optimize; the metrics Refine mode is surfaced when a scan is slow. Do NOT use for: a normal security scan or fixing vulnerabilities (use the hawkscan skill); querying existing findings or posture (use the api skill); or editing stackhawk.yml without optimizing/scanning. Requires an onboarded StackHawk app + env and a hawk build whose hawk op has the policy write commands.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-stackhawk-optimize
- tashan id: skill:stackhawk/optimize
- Source: https://github.com/stackhawk/claude-skills
- Type: skill
- Category: security
- tashan score: 49.0 / 100
- Adoption: 14.0
- Upkeep: 97.0
- Freshness: 94.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- License: MIT
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r optimize ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-08-14 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.