diff --git a/src/agents/provider-http-errors.test.ts b/src/agents/provider-http-errors.test.ts
index 824e4c23de1..a7b17919ff1 100644
--- a/src/agents/provider-http-errors.test.ts
+++ b/src/agents/provider-http-errors.test.ts
@@ -136,6 +136,21 @@ describe("provider error utils", () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it("does not split UTF-16 surrogate pairs when truncating provider error details", async () => {
+    const safePrefix = "a".repeat(218);
+    const message = `${safePrefix}😀suffix`;
+    const response = new Response(
+      JSON.stringify({
+        error: { message, code: "utf16_test" },
+      }),
+      { status: 400 },
+    );
+
+    await expect(assertOkOrThrowProviderError(response, "Provider API error")).rejects.toThrow(
+      `Provider API error (400): ${safePrefix}… [code=utf16_test]`,
+    );
+  });
+
   it("keeps HTTP status metadata when error body reads fail", async () => {
     const response = {
       ok: false,
diff --git a/src/agents/provider-http-errors.ts b/src/agents/provider-http-errors.ts
index a052d25c5b2..3d0ba647352 100644
--- a/src/agents/provider-http-errors.ts
+++ b/src/agents/provider-http-errors.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  * Transport adapters use this module to turn provider-specific response bodies,
  * request ids, and binary payload guardrails into stable OpenClaw error shapes.
  */
+import { truncateUtf16Safe } from "@openclaw/normalization-core/utf16-slice";
 export { asFiniteNumber } from "../../packages/normalization-core/src/number-coercion.js";
 import { normalizeOptionalString as trimToUndefined } from "../../packages/normalization-core/src/string-coerce.js";
 import { readResponseWithLimit } from "../infra/http-body.js";
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ export function asObject(value: unknown): Record<string, unknown> | undefined {
 
 /** Trims provider error details to a log- and prompt-safe preview length. */
 export function truncateErrorDetail(detail: string, limit = 220): string {
-  return detail.length <= limit ? detail : `${detail.slice(0, limit - 1)}…`;
+  return detail.length <= limit ? detail : `${truncateUtf16Safe(detail, limit - 1)}…`;
 }
 
 /** Redacts secrets before preserving a bounded provider error body preview. */