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 - **Performance**: multithreaded, Hyperscan‑powered scanning built for huge codebases  
 - **Extensible rules**: hundreds of built-in detectors plus YAML-defined custom rules ([docs/RULES.md](/docs/RULES.md))  
-  - **Broad AI SaaS coverage**: finds and validates tokens for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Cohere, Mistral, Stability AI, Replicate, xAI (Grok), Ollama, Langchain, Perplexity, Weights & Biases, Cerebras, Friendli, Fireworks.ai, NVIDIA NIM, Together.ai, Zhipu, and many more
+- **Broad AI SaaS coverage**: finds and validates tokens for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Cohere, Mistral, Stability AI, Replicate, xAI (Grok), Ollama, Langchain, Perplexity, Weights & Biases, Cerebras, Friendli, Fireworks.ai, NVIDIA NIM, Together.ai, Zhipu, and many more
 - **Compressed Files**: Supports extracting and scanning compressed files for secrets
-- Decode Base64 blobs and scan their contents for secrets while skipping short strings for performance. This has a small performance impact and can be disabled with `--no-base64`
 - **Baseline management**: generate and track baselines to suppress known secrets ([docs/BASELINE.md](/docs/BASELINE.md))
 
 **Learn more:** [Introducing Kingfisher: Real‑Time Secret Detection and Validation](https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/product-release-announcements/introducing-kingfisher-real-time-secret-detection-validation)
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 ## Notable Scan Options
 
 - `--no-dedup`: Report every occurrence of a finding (disable the default de-duplicate behavior)
+- `--no-base64`: By default, Kingfisher finds and decodes base64 blobs and scans them for secrets. This adds a slight performance overhead; use this flag to disable
 - `--confidence <LEVEL>`: (low|medium|high)
 - `--min-entropy <VAL>`: Override default threshold
 - `--no-binary`: Skip binary files
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 - `--manage-baseline`: Create or update the baseline file with current findings
 - `--skip-regex <PATTERN>`: Ignore findings whose text matches this regex (repeatable)
 - `--skip-word <WORD>`: Ignore findings containing this case-insensitive word (repeatable)
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 ## Understanding `--confidence`
 
 The `--confidence` flag sets a minimum confidence threshold, not an exact match.