diff --git a/src/agents/tool-display-exec.ts b/src/agents/tool-display-exec.ts
index 7d3f67bc71c..fd8bd0dc949 100644
--- a/src/agents/tool-display-exec.ts
+++ b/src/agents/tool-display-exec.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  */
 import { asOptionalObjectRecord as asRecord } from "@openclaw/normalization-core/record-coerce";
 import { redactToolPayloadText } from "../logging/redact.js";
+import { sliceUtf16Safe } from "../shared/utf16-slice.js";
 import {
   binaryName,
   firstPositional,
@@ -442,7 +443,7 @@ function compactRawCommand(raw: string, maxLength = 120): string {
     return oneLine;
   }
   const half = Math.floor((maxLength - 1) / 2);
-  return `${oneLine.slice(0, half)}…${oneLine.slice(-(maxLength - 1 - half))}`;
+  return `${sliceUtf16Safe(oneLine, 0, half)}…${sliceUtf16Safe(oneLine, -(maxLength - 1 - half))}`;
 }
 
 export type ToolDetailMode = "explain" | "raw";
diff --git a/src/agents/tool-display.test.ts b/src/agents/tool-display.test.ts
index 1ad63abd75b..9e878ab7428 100644
--- a/src/agents/tool-display.test.ts
+++ b/src/agents/tool-display.test.ts
@@ -562,6 +562,28 @@ describe("compactRawCommand middle truncation", () => {
     expect(result).not.toContain("AKIDABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP1234567890");
     expect(result).toContain("AKIDAB…7890");
   });
+
+  it("does not split a surrogate pair when the head boundary lands on an emoji", () => {
+    // The one-line form is 140 UTF-16 units. With the default maxLength=120 the head
+    // slice ends at index 59, but the 😀 emoji (U+1F600, a surrogate pair) occupies
+    // indices 58-59 — so a raw .slice(0, 59) would keep the high surrogate and drop
+    // its low half, leaving a lone surrogate that renders as the replacement char.
+    const emoji = String.fromCodePoint(0x1f600);
+    // Unknown binary so resolveExecDetail returns the compact raw form directly.
+    const longCommand = `/opt/custom/bin/run ${"a".repeat(38)}${emoji}${"b".repeat(80)}`;
+    const result = resolveExecDetail({ command: longCommand });
+
+    expect(result).toBeDefined();
+    // The whole emoji is dropped at the boundary rather than half of it.
+    expect(result).not.toContain(emoji);
+    // No dangling/lone surrogate code units remain in the rendered detail.
+    expect(result).not.toMatch(/[\uD800-\uDBFF](?![\uDC00-\uDFFF])/);
+    expect(result).not.toMatch(/(?<![\uD800-\uDBFF])[\uDC00-\uDFFF]/);
+    // Start and end of the command are still preserved around the ellipsis.
+    expect(result).toContain("/opt/custom/bin/run");
+    expect(result).toContain("…");
+    expect(result).toMatch(/b{4}$/);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("coerceDisplayValue middle truncation", () => {