diff --git a/src/tools/standard/glob.lex b/src/tools/standard/glob.lex
index ffa9b34..3e3823f 100644
--- a/src/tools/standard/glob.lex
+++ b/src/tools/standard/glob.lex
@@ -16,12 +16,20 @@ fn params() -> s.ModelSchema {
   { title: "GlobArgs", description: "Find files matching a pattern", fields: [s.required_str("pattern", []), s.optional(s.required_str("directory", []))] }
 }
 
+# `-name` matches only a file's basename, so any pattern containing "/" —
+# "**/*.lex", "src/*", "lex/specs/**" — can never match anything: find
+# silently reports no results instead of erroring, so the caller has no
+# signal anything went wrong. `-path` matches against the full path find is
+# already walking (BSD and GNU find both apply it without FNM_PATHNAME, so
+# "*" matches "/" too), which handles the recursive-glob and nested-prefix
+# forms models actually send while still behaving identically to `-name`
+# for a plain slash-free pattern like "*.lex".
 fn execute(args :: jv.Json) -> [net, io, proc] Result[jv.Json, e.Errors] {
   match util.field_str(args, "pattern") {
     None => Err(e.single("", "missing_field", "pattern is required")),
     Some(pattern) => {
       let dir := util.field_str_or(args, "directory", ".")
-      match proc.run("find", [dir, "-name", pattern, "-type", "f"]) {
+      match proc.run("find", [dir, "-path", pattern, "-type", "f"]) {
         Err(msg) => Err(e.single("", "proc_error", msg)),
         Ok(out) => {
           let result := if str.is_empty(out.stdout) {