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Excluding a specialist from a scan

Skip a department whose checks don't apply — for one scan, reversibly.

Reviewed by OperationsUpdated May 28, 20262 min readSuggest edit

You'll need

A project you can scan

Time

~1 min

Scope

Applies to one scan only

Most of the time you want all six specialists working. But some areas genuinely don't apply — there's no brand surface to check on an internal-only tool, and operations checks make little sense for something you never intend to charge for. Excluding a specialist tells Wolfix to skip that department's checks for a single scan, so its findings don't crowd out the ones you actually need to act on. It's a per-scan choice and fully reversible.

Open the scan options

From your project, start a new scan and open Scan options before you launch. The options panel lists the six departments — Legal, Security, Technology, Brand, Growth, and Operations — each with a toggle. By default all six are on.

Fig. 01Scan options: the six department toggles · screenshot pending

Turn off the department you want to skip

Switch off the toggle for any department whose checks don't apply to this project. You can exclude more than one. The panel updates to show which specialists will work this scan and which will sit it out, so you can confirm the coverage before you commit.

Fig. 02A department toggled off before launching the scan · screenshot pending

Excluding a department hides its findings entirely

A skipped department produces no findings — not "zero issues found", but "not checked". If you exclude Security, the report won't tell you whether your secrets are exposed; it simply won't look. Only exclude a specialist when you are sure the area doesn't apply, not to make a report look cleaner.

Run the scan and read the coverage strip

Launch the scan as usual. On the report, the department summary strip shows the excluded department greyed out — the same way it appears when a source had no signal — so anyone reading the report can see the area was skipped, not passed. The exclusion applies only to this scan.

Fig. 03Report: the excluded department greyed out in the summary strip · screenshot pending

Turn the specialist back on next time

Exclusions don't persist. The next scan starts with all six departments on again, so you decide coverage fresh each time. To bring a specialist back into the current configuration, just re-open scan options and switch its toggle back on before launching.

Prefer a full scan when in doubt

Excluding a specialist saves a little noise, not much time — the six steps run in parallel. If you're unsure whether an area applies, leave it on: an irrelevant covered item is easy to ignore, but a gap you never checked for is easy to miss.

You just did

You tailored a scan's coverage

  • Opened scan options and reviewed the six department toggles
  • Turned off a department whose checks don't apply to this project
  • Ran the scan and confirmed the excluded department is greyed out
  • Know the exclusion applies to this scan only and resets next time

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