diff --git a/jcp/jcp-rs/crates/jcp-energy/src/lib.rs b/jcp/jcp-rs/crates/jcp-energy/src/lib.rs
index 930183d30..167903ada 100644
--- a/jcp/jcp-rs/crates/jcp-energy/src/lib.rs
+++ b/jcp/jcp-rs/crates/jcp-energy/src/lib.rs
@@ -7250,6 +7250,14 @@ mod tests {
             buffer: *mut std::ffi::c_void,
             buffersize: std::os::raw::c_int,
         ) -> std::os::raw::c_int;
+        fn proc_pidinfo(
+            pid: std::os::raw::c_int,
+            flavor: std::os::raw::c_int,
+            arg: u64,
+            buffer: *mut std::ffi::c_void,
+            buffersize: std::os::raw::c_int,
+        ) -> std::os::raw::c_int;
+        fn pthread_threadid_np(thread: *mut std::ffi::c_void, thread_id: *mut u64) -> std::os::raw::c_int;
     }
 
     /// This thread's CPU time, by the tests' own clock.
@@ -7309,6 +7317,56 @@ mod tests {
         })
     }
 
+    /// `proc_pidinfo` flavor 34, `PROC_PIDTHREADCOUNTS` in the kernel's
+    /// `<sys/proc_info.h>` (the SDK's copy of that header leaves it out): one
+    /// thread's counts, asked by its 64-bit thread id. The kernel writes a
+    /// `uint16_t` count of CPU performance levels and six bytes of padding,
+    /// then for each level five `uint64_t`: instructions, cycles, user time,
+    /// system time, and the thread's CPU energy in nJ. On the dev host: two
+    /// levels, 88 bytes.
+    #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+    const TESTS_PIDTHREADCOUNTS: std::os::raw::c_int = 34;
+
+    /// The tests' own read of the calling thread's own CPU energy count, in
+    /// nJ, summed over the performance levels it ran on: the per-thread
+    /// oracle, through their own FFI declarations. The meter reads the whole
+    /// process's count by another call, and the kernel keeps that count as
+    /// its threads' counts added up, an exited thread's included. On the dev
+    /// host, under a load average near 100, a span in which one thread burned
+    /// rose by exactly that thread's own rise, and one in which two did, by
+    /// their sum and a little more (spawning and joining the second): never
+    /// less, in every span measured.
+    #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+    #[allow(unsafe_code)]
+    fn oracle_this_thread_energy_nj() -> u64 {
+        const LEVELS: usize = 8;
+        let mut tid = 0u64;
+        let rc = unsafe { pthread_threadid_np(std::ptr::null_mut(), &mut tid) };
+        assert_eq!(rc, 0, "the tests' pthread_threadid_np failed");
+        let mut counts = [0u64; 1 + 5 * LEVELS];
+        let bytes = std::mem::size_of_val(&counts) as std::os::raw::c_int;
+        let me = std::process::id() as std::os::raw::c_int;
+        let wrote = unsafe { proc_pidinfo(me, TESTS_PIDTHREADCOUNTS, tid, counts.as_mut_ptr().cast(), bytes) };
+        let head = counts[0].to_ne_bytes();
+        let levels = usize::from(u16::from_ne_bytes([head[0], head[1]]));
+        assert!(
+            (1..=LEVELS).contains(&levels) && usize::try_from(wrote) == Ok(8 + 40 * levels),
+            "the tests' per-thread counts: {wrote} bytes written for {levels} performance level(s)"
+        );
+        (0..levels).map(|level| counts[1 + 5 * level + 4]).sum()
+    }
+
+    /// [`burn_thread_cpu`], with the rise of this thread's own energy count
+    /// across the burn by the per-thread oracle, in nJ: the wall time the burn
+    /// took, and that rise.
+    #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
+    fn burn_thread_cpu_counted(cpu: Duration) -> (Duration, u64) {
+        let before = oracle_this_thread_energy_nj();
+        let wall = burn_thread_cpu(cpu);
+        let after = oracle_this_thread_energy_nj();
+        (wall, after.checked_sub(before).expect("this thread's own energy count fell"))
+    }
+
     /// The tests' own read of a process's reaped children's CPU time
     /// (`ri_child_user_time` + `ri_child_system_time`), through their own FFI
     /// declaration and the transcribed struct.
@@ -7497,33 +7555,55 @@ mod tests {
 
     /// Two threads burning 200 ms of CPU each meter more than one: every
     /// thread of the process is in the count. Each thread's 200 ms are of its
-    /// own CPU clock (see [`burn_thread_cpu`]), so neither span's work depends
-    /// on how loaded the host is.
+    /// own CPU clock (see [`burn_thread_cpu`]). Both burn in one span, and the
+    /// tests' per-thread oracle reads each one's own count across its burn.
+    /// The span's figure must be at least the two counts added up, and so
+    /// more than either one's: what one thread burning that CPU would meter.
+    ///
+    /// The figures compared come from the same span, so whichever cores and
+    /// clocks a loaded host gives the threads, they count the same work. Two
+    /// spans one after the other do not: the CPU is the same in both, but its
+    /// energy follows the core type and clock each span ran on, and on a
+    /// loaded host one thread's 200 ms read 0.92 J and two threads' 0.59 J.
+    /// A meter that counts only the thread that calls it reads one thread
+    /// here, and fails.
     #[cfg(target_os = "macos")]
     #[test]
     fn two_threads_burning_meter_more_than_one() {
         in_a_fresh_process("tests::two_threads_burning_meter_more_than_one", || {
             let meter = process_meter();
             let cpu = Duration::from_millis(200);
-            let (wall_one, one) = meter.measure(|| burn_thread_cpu(cpu));
-            let (wall_two, two) = meter.measure(|| {
+            let (((wall_mine, mine_nj), (wall_other, other_nj)), two) = meter.measure(|| {
                 std::thread::scope(|s| {
-                    let other = s.spawn(|| burn_thread_cpu(cpu));
-                    let mine = burn_thread_cpu(cpu);
-                    mine.max(other.join().expect("the second burning thread panicked"))
+                    let other = s.spawn(|| burn_thread_cpu_counted(cpu));
+                    let mine = burn_thread_cpu_counted(cpu);
+                    (mine, other.join().expect("the second burning thread panicked"))
                 })
             });
+            let threads_nj = mine_nj + other_nj;
             eprintln!(
-                "process energy: 200 ms of CPU on 1 thread, in {wall_one:?} of wall time -> {} µJ ({:.3} J), on each \
-                 of 2 threads, in {wall_two:?} -> {} µJ ({:.3} J), ratio {:.2}",
-                one.uj(),
-                joules(one.uj()),
+                "process energy: 200 ms of CPU on each of 2 threads, in {wall_mine:?} and {wall_other:?} of wall \
+                 time -> {} µJ ({:.3} J); the threads' own counts rose {mine_nj} + {other_nj} nJ ({:.3} J), ratio \
+                 {:.3}",
                 two.uj(),
                 joules(two.uj()),
-                two.uj() as f64 / one.uj().max(1) as f64
+                threads_nj as f64 / 1e9,
+                two.uj() as f64 * 1e3 / threads_nj.max(1) as f64
+            );
+            assert_eq!(two.provenance, Provenance::HwShunt, "{two:?}");
+            assert!(mine_nj > 0 && other_nj > 0, "a burning thread's own count did not rise: {mine_nj} and {other_nj} nJ");
+            let metered_nj = two.uj().saturating_mul(1_000);
+            assert!(
+                metered_nj > mine_nj.max(other_nj),
+                "two threads metered {} µJ, no more than one of them alone ({mine_nj} and {other_nj} nJ)",
+                two.uj()
+            );
+            assert!(
+                metered_nj >= threads_nj,
+                "two threads metered {} µJ, under their own counts added up, {mine_nj} + {other_nj} = {threads_nj} nJ: \
+                 a thread of the process is not in the count",
+                two.uj()
             );
-            assert_eq!((one.provenance, two.provenance), (Provenance::HwShunt, Provenance::HwShunt));
-            assert!(two.uj() > one.uj(), "two threads metered {} µJ, one thread {} µJ", two.uj(), one.uj());
         });
     }