Is there a way to add JVM options?

We need to turn off Java Asserts for a couple of classes in a thirdparty jar we use. It there a way to specify the JVM options required to do so by adding the the necessary JVM options, perhaps via the `env:` section in our `yaks-config.yaml` file? I've looked at the source code of the project a bit, but it's still not obvious if there is a way to do this.