diff --git a/src/agents/embedded-agent-runner/tool-result-context-guard.test.ts b/src/agents/embedded-agent-runner/tool-result-context-guard.test.ts
index d7b43bd6fa5b..56f10bfcde17 100644
--- a/src/agents/embedded-agent-runner/tool-result-context-guard.test.ts
+++ b/src/agents/embedded-agent-runner/tool-result-context-guard.test.ts
@@ -327,6 +327,26 @@ describe("installToolResultContextGuard", () => {
     expectOpenClawTruncation(getToolResultText(transformed[0]));
   });
 
+  it("truncates UTF-16 tool results without splitting surrogate pairs", async () => {
+    // With contextWindowTokens=1000, maxSingleToolResultChars=1024 and the
+    // text budget becomes 512. The legacy cut point falls inside the emoji
+    // at index 439, which used to emit a lone high surrogate.
+    const agent = makeGuardableAgent();
+    const text = "a".repeat(439) + "😀" + "b".repeat(1_000);
+    const contextForNextCall = [makeToolResult("call_utf16", text)];
+
+    const transformed = (await applyGuardToContext(
+      agent,
+      contextForNextCall,
+      1_000,
+    )) as AgentMessage[];
+
+    expect(getToolResultText(transformed[0])).toBe(
+      "a".repeat(439) + formatContextLimitTruncationNotice(1_002),
+    );
+    expect(getToolResultText(contextForNextCall[0])).toBe(text);
+  });
+
   it("raises a structured mid-turn precheck signal after a new tool result overflows", async () => {
     // The signal carries route metadata so the run loop can compact/truncate
     // without guessing from a generic overflow error.
diff --git a/src/agents/embedded-agent-runner/tool-result-context-guard.ts b/src/agents/embedded-agent-runner/tool-result-context-guard.ts
index 02dc292ced36..5d801d360555 100644
--- a/src/agents/embedded-agent-runner/tool-result-context-guard.ts
+++ b/src/agents/embedded-agent-runner/tool-result-context-guard.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { truncateUtf16Safe } from "@openclaw/normalization-core/utf16-slice";
 /**
  * Installs context guards for oversized tool-result histories.
  */
@@ -164,8 +165,8 @@ function truncateTextToBudget(text: string, maxChars: number): string {
     cutPoint = newline;
   }
 
-  const omittedChars = text.length - cutPoint;
-  return text.slice(0, cutPoint) + formatContextLimitTruncationNotice(omittedChars);
+  const prefix = truncateUtf16Safe(text, cutPoint);
+  return prefix + formatContextLimitTruncationNotice(text.length - prefix.length);
 }
 
 function replaceToolResultText(msg: AgentMessage, text: string): AgentMessage {