diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch.ts
index a4d64940af6..7cd7218139f 100644
--- a/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch.ts
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/bot-message-dispatch.ts
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ import {
   resolveDefaultModelForAgent,
 } from "./bot-message-dispatch.agent.runtime.js";
 import { deduplicateBlockSentMedia } from "./bot-message-dispatch.media-dedup.js";
+import { clipTelegramProgressText } from "./truncate.js";
 import {
   generateTopicLabel,
   getAgentScopedMediaLocalRoots,
@@ -364,22 +365,14 @@ async function mirrorTelegramAssistantReplyToTranscript(params: {
   }
 }
 
-const MAX_PROGRESS_MARKDOWN_TEXT_CHARS = 300;
 const TELEGRAM_GENERAL_TOPIC_ID = 1;
 
-function clipProgressMarkdownText(text: string): string {
-  if (text.length <= MAX_PROGRESS_MARKDOWN_TEXT_CHARS) {
-    return text;
-  }
-  return `${text.slice(0, MAX_PROGRESS_MARKDOWN_TEXT_CHARS - 1).trimEnd()}…`;
-}
-
 function sanitizeProgressMarkdownText(text: string): string {
   return text.replaceAll("`", "'");
 }
 
 function formatProgressAsMarkdownCode(text: string): string {
-  const clipped = clipProgressMarkdownText(text);
+  const clipped = clipTelegramProgressText(text);
   return `\`${sanitizeProgressMarkdownText(clipped)}\``;
 }
 
@@ -399,7 +392,7 @@ function escapeTelegramProgressHtml(text: string): string {
 }
 
 function renderTelegramProgressStringLine(text: string): string {
-  const clipped = clipProgressMarkdownText(text.trim());
+  const clipped = clipTelegramProgressText(text.trim());
   const italic = clipped.match(/^_(.*)_$/u);
   if (italic) {
     return `<i>${escapeTelegramProgressHtml(italic[1] ?? "")}</i>`;
@@ -418,7 +411,7 @@ function renderTelegramProgressLine(line: ChannelProgressDraftCompositorLine): s
   const parts = [`<b>${escapeTelegramProgressHtml(label)}</b>`];
   const detail = line.detail && line.detail !== line.label ? line.detail : undefined;
   if (detail) {
-    parts.push(`<code>${escapeTelegramProgressHtml(clipProgressMarkdownText(detail))}</code>`);
+    parts.push(`<code>${escapeTelegramProgressHtml(clipTelegramProgressText(detail))}</code>`);
   } else {
     const text = line.text.trim();
     if (text && text !== label) {
diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/truncate.test.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/truncate.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2eea1cdea96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/truncate.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+// Telegram tests cover progress text clipping behavior.
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { clipTelegramProgressText, TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS } from "./truncate.js";
+
+describe("clipTelegramProgressText", () => {
+  it("drops a surrogate-pair emoji whole when it straddles the limit", () => {
+    // 😀 is U+1F600, encoded as two UTF-16 code units (high \uD83D + low \uDE00).
+    // Placing the emoji at positions [MAX-2, MAX-1] (0-indexed) puts its high
+    // surrogate right on the .slice(0, MAX-1) cut edge. A raw .slice keeps only
+    // \uD83D — an unpaired high surrogate — which is invalid in a Telegram payload.
+    const base = "a".repeat(TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS - 2); // 298 'a's
+    const out = clipTelegramProgressText(`${base}😀tail`);
+    expect(out).toBe(`${base}…`);
+    // No dangling high surrogate (high not followed by a low surrogate).
+    expect(/[\uD800-\uDBFF](?![\uDC00-\uDFFF])/.test(out)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps an emoji that fits entirely before the cut", () => {
+    // 296 'a's + '😀' (2 units) + 'xyz' (3 units) = 301 total > 300.
+    // The emoji sits at [296, 297] — entirely before the cut at 299 — so it stays.
+    const base = "a".repeat(TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS - 4); // 296 'a's
+    const out = clipTelegramProgressText(`${base}😀xyz`);
+    expect(out).toBe(`${base}😀x…`);
+    expect(/[\uD800-\uDBFF](?![\uDC00-\uDFFF])/.test(out)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("returns text unchanged when it is within the limit", () => {
+    const short = "hello 😀 world";
+    expect(clipTelegramProgressText(short)).toBe(short);
+  });
+
+  it("trims trailing whitespace before the ellipsis", () => {
+    // The sliced portion may end in spaces when trailing spaces straddle the cut.
+    const text = `${"a".repeat(TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS - 2)}  rest`;
+    const out = clipTelegramProgressText(text);
+    expect(out).not.toContain("  …");
+    expect(out.endsWith("…")).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("handles plain ASCII that fills exactly to the limit", () => {
+    const exact = "x".repeat(TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS);
+    expect(clipTelegramProgressText(exact)).toBe(exact);
+    const oneOver = `${"x".repeat(TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS)}y`;
+    const out = clipTelegramProgressText(oneOver);
+    expect(out.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS);
+    expect(out.endsWith("…")).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/extensions/telegram/src/truncate.ts b/extensions/telegram/src/truncate.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..18090e813e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extensions/telegram/src/truncate.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// Telegram tests cover progress text clipping behavior.
+import { sliceUtf16Safe } from "openclaw/plugin-sdk/text-utility-runtime";
+
+export const TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS = 300;
+
+/**
+ * Clips Telegram progress text to at most {@link TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS} UTF-16 code units,
+ * slicing on a code-point boundary so a surrogate pair straddling the limit is
+ * dropped whole rather than leaving a lone high surrogate in the payload.
+ */
+export function clipTelegramProgressText(text: string): string {
+  if (text.length <= TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS) {
+    return text;
+  }
+  // Slice on a code-point boundary so an emoji (or any astral character) that
+  // straddles the limit is dropped whole instead of leaving a lone \uD83D-style
+  // high surrogate before the ellipsis, which serializes to an invalid character
+  // in the Telegram Bot API payload.
+  return `${sliceUtf16Safe(text, 0, TELEGRAM_PROGRESS_MAX_CHARS - 1).trimEnd()}…`;
+}