diff --git a/scripts/pre-commit/pnpm-audit-prod.mjs b/scripts/pre-commit/pnpm-audit-prod.mjs
index 66503c6c4069..bbe06be257be 100644
--- a/scripts/pre-commit/pnpm-audit-prod.mjs
+++ b/scripts/pre-commit/pnpm-audit-prod.mjs
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import path from "node:path";
 import process from "node:process";
 import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
+// This zero-install hook runs on Node 22.22.3+, where native TypeScript stripping is enabled.
+import { truncateUtf16Safe } from "../../packages/normalization-core/src/utf16-slice.ts";
 import { readBoundedResponseText as readBoundedResponseTextWithLimit } from "../lib/bounded-response.mjs";
 
 const DEFAULT_REGISTRY = "https://registry.npmjs.org";
@@ -783,7 +785,7 @@ export async function readBoundedBulkAdvisoryErrorText(
 
       text += decoder.decode(value, { stream: true });
       if (text.length > maxChars) {
-        text = text.slice(0, maxChars);
+        text = truncateUtf16Safe(text, maxChars);
         truncated = true;
         break;
       }
diff --git a/test/scripts/pnpm-audit-prod.test.ts b/test/scripts/pnpm-audit-prod.test.ts
index 6338880c4896..da1c7f5899b0 100644
--- a/test/scripts/pnpm-audit-prod.test.ts
+++ b/test/scripts/pnpm-audit-prod.test.ts
@@ -248,6 +248,26 @@ snapshots:
     expect(text.length).toBeLessThan(4200);
   });
 
+  it.each([
+    {
+      caseName: "drops a split surrogate pair",
+      responseBody: `abc\u{1f600}tail`,
+      expectedText: "abc\n[truncated]",
+    },
+    {
+      caseName: "preserves a complete surrogate pair",
+      responseBody: `ab\u{1f600}tail`,
+      expectedText: `ab\u{1f600}\n[truncated]`,
+    },
+  ])(
+    "keeps bulk advisory error truncation UTF-16 safe: $caseName",
+    async ({ responseBody, expectedText }) => {
+      const response = new Response(responseBody, { status: 500 });
+
+      await expect(readBoundedBulkAdvisoryErrorText(response, 4)).resolves.toBe(expectedText);
+    },
+  );
+
   it("aborts stalled bulk advisory requests", async () => {
     let signal: AbortSignal | undefined;
     const request = fetchBulkAdvisories({