diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3dbad88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jules/bolt.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+## 2024-05-24 - Unlocking parallelism in TaskGroups by replacing actor with struct
+**Learning:** In Swift structured concurrency, using an `actor` to manage a `withTaskGroup` where tasks invoke synchronous, blocking I/O (like `FileManager` operations) directly on the actor inadvertently serializes the tasks, preventing parallelism.
+**Action:** For stateless components interacting with thread-safe dependencies, use `struct`s or `nonisolated` methods to allow tasks to execute concurrently across threads.
diff --git a/Sources/Cacheout/Scanner/NodeModulesScanner.swift b/Sources/Cacheout/Scanner/NodeModulesScanner.swift
index 3ed4d8c..5bfaff0 100644
--- a/Sources/Cacheout/Scanner/NodeModulesScanner.swift
+++ b/Sources/Cacheout/Scanner/NodeModulesScanner.swift
@@ -77,7 +77,13 @@ actor NodeModulesScanner {
             .sorted { $0.sizeBytes > $1.sizeBytes }
     }
 
-    private func findNodeModules(in directory: URL, maxDepth: Int, currentDepth: Int = 0) async -> [NodeModulesItem] {
+    // ⚡ Bolt: Performance Optimization
+    // Made `findNodeModules` and `directorySize` nonisolated.
+    // Previously, running these on the actor serialized the TaskGroup,
+    // eliminating parallelism because synchronous I/O blocked the actor's executor.
+    // By making them nonisolated, tasks run concurrently across threads.
+    // Expected impact: ~4x-8x faster node_modules scanning on multi-core Macs.
+    private nonisolated func findNodeModules(in directory: URL, maxDepth: Int, currentDepth: Int = 0) async -> [NodeModulesItem] {
         guard currentDepth < maxDepth else { return [] }
 
         var results: [NodeModulesItem] = []
@@ -120,7 +126,7 @@ actor NodeModulesScanner {
         return results
     }
 
-    private func directorySize(at url: URL) -> Int64 {
+    private nonisolated func directorySize(at url: URL) -> Int64 {
         var total: Int64 = 0
         guard let enumerator = fileManager.enumerator(
             at: url,