diff --git a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
index b2e0217c7a..a354e184b2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml
@@ -452,10 +452,25 @@ jobs:
       # pypcap ships no wheel: it compiles pcap.c against libpcap, so both the
       # headers and the shared library have to be present before pip is asked
       # to build it.
-      - name: Install libpcap headers and a C toolchain
+      #
+      # tshark joins them per #845's finding 1: this job installs pyshark and
+      # its fixture-tier selection (see this job's own comment above) is the
+      # only place tests/integration/test_engine_runtime.py's real
+      # ``engine='pyshark'`` extraction is reachable at all --
+      # `engine-tests`'s own selection ignores tests/integration and
+      # *_runtime.py wholesale. Without tshark, PyShark.unsupported_reason()
+      # declines the engine, the extractor silently falls back to the default
+      # parser, and the test's assertions used to pass on that fallback's
+      # output -- a vacuous pass, invisible in skip counts. The debconf
+      # pre-seed and DEBIAN_FRONTEND mirror `engine-tests`'s "Install system
+      # libpcap and tshark" step exactly, for the same reason: tshark's
+      # postinst otherwise blocks on the "allow non-superusers to capture
+      # packets" prompt.
+      - name: Install libpcap headers, a C toolchain, and tshark
         run: |
           sudo apt-get update
-          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential libpcap-dev
+          echo "wireshark-common wireshark-common/install-setuid boolean false" | sudo debconf-set-selections
+          sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential libpcap-dev tshark
 
       - name: Install package, test and generator dependencies
         run: |
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_engine_parity.py b/tests/integration/test_engine_parity.py
index 2f12dd8b51..bb7c728220 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_engine_parity.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_engine_parity.py
@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@
 capture through each engine and wrote four reports nobody compared, into
 assertions that the engines agree.
 
-``pyshark`` is left out on purpose. It needs :program:`tshark`, which is not
-installed here, and on Python 3.14 it fails inside its own
-``get_event_loop()`` before it reads a byte;
+``pyshark`` is left out on purpose -- not for want of :program:`tshark`, which
+the ``pypcap-parity`` job (the one whose selection collects this file) now
+installs, but because on Python 3.14 it fails inside its own
+``get_event_loop()`` before it reads a byte, so it cannot take part in a parity
+comparison that runs on every version;
 :file:`tests/integration/test_engine_runtime.py` already pins that. The
 ``pipeline`` and ``server`` engines are commented out in the original script and
 are not covered here either.
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_engine_runtime.py b/tests/integration/test_engine_runtime.py
index 698667b34e..a2efbad487 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_engine_runtime.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_engine_runtime.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import importlib.util
 import sys
 import unittest
+from unittest import mock
 
 from tests._support import close_extractor, purge_modules, sample_path
 
@@ -99,8 +100,25 @@ def test_pyshark_engine_is_refused_before_asyncio_can_break(self) -> None:
             # And the fall back is a working extraction, not an empty one.
             self.assertEqual(extractor.length, 6)
         else:
-            extractor = extract(fin=sample_path('in.pcap'), fout='/tmp/out', format='tree', store=True, nofile=True, engine='pyshark')
+            # Prove pyshark actually ran, rather than the built-in parser wearing
+            # its label -- see test_new_engine_parity_runtime.py's own `extract`
+            # helper, which asserts the same thing for PyPCAP/PyPCAPFile. Without
+            # this, a CI leg missing the ``tshark`` binary makes
+            # ``PyShark.unsupported_reason()`` decline the engine, the extractor
+            # silently falls back to the default parser, and the length assertion
+            # below passes on the fallback's output -- a vacuous pass (#845).
+            from pcapkit.foundation.engines.pyshark import PyShark
+
+            with mock.patch('pcapkit.foundation.extraction.warn') as warn:
+                extractor = extract(fin=sample_path('in.pcap'), fout='/tmp/out', format='tree', store=True, nofile=True, engine='pyshark')
             self.addCleanup(close_extractor, extractor)
+
+            engines = [call.args[0] for call in warn.call_args_list
+                       if len(call.args) > 1 and call.args[1] is EngineWarning]
+            self.assertEqual(engines, [], "'pyshark' was replaced by the fallback engine")
+            self.assertEqual(extractor._exnam, 'pyshark')
+            self.assertIsInstance(extractor.engine, PyShark)
+
             self.assertGreater(extractor.length, 0)