diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
index bbbd0aec..819b1bac 100644
--- a/.jules/bolt.md
+++ b/.jules/bolt.md
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 **Learning:** When checking if a `DomCrawler` filter matched any elements, `assertGreaterThan(0, count($node))` was used. Since `$node` is an object implementing `Countable`, the global `count()` function checks the interface and dispatches to `$node->count()`. Calling `$node->count()` directly bypasses this overhead, resulting in slightly faster execution times (~2x speedup in isolated microbenchmarks).
 
 **Action:** Replaced `count($node)` with `$node->count()` in `BrowserAssertionsTrait` and `FormAssertionsTrait`.
+## 2024-05-18 - Optimize File Search with `glob()`
+**Learning:** For simple, single-directory file searches (depth 0), using the native PHP `glob()` function is significantly faster than using the `Symfony\Component\Finder\Finder` component due to reduced object instantiation and iterator overhead. When checking for `*Kernel.php` files in a given app path, `glob()` provides a clean, native solution. Make sure to use the null coalescing operator (`?: []`) to safely handle `glob()` returning `false` on some file systems.
+**Action:** Replaced `Symfony\Component\Finder\Finder` with `glob($path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '*Kernel.php') ?: []` in `getKernelClass()` within `src/Codeception/Module/Symfony.php` to improve performance. Unused `Finder` import was subsequently removed.
diff --git a/src/Codeception/Module/Symfony.php b/src/Codeception/Module/Symfony.php
index 5e3c806e..918763dd 100644
--- a/src/Codeception/Module/Symfony.php
+++ b/src/Codeception/Module/Symfony.php
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 use Symfony\Bundle\SecurityBundle\DataCollector\SecurityDataCollector;
 use Symfony\Component\BrowserKit\AbstractBrowser;
 use Symfony\Component\Dotenv\Dotenv;
-use Symfony\Component\Finder\Finder;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\DataCollector\TimeDataCollector;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Profiler\Profile;
@@ -334,8 +333,8 @@ protected function getKernelClass(): string
         if (file_exists($expectedKernelPath)) {
             include_once $expectedKernelPath;
         } else {
-            foreach ((new Finder())->name('*Kernel.php')->depth('0')->in($path) as $file) {
-                include_once $file->getRealPath();
+            foreach (glob($path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '*Kernel.php') ?: [] as $file) {
+                include_once $file;
             }
         }