diff --git a/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/parts/ToolPart.tsx b/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/parts/ToolPart.tsx
index f8bc3441..cf74589f 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/parts/ToolPart.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/parts/ToolPart.tsx
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import {
     renderTodoOutput,
     tryParseJsonOutput,
     coerceToText,
+    capToolOutputText,
 } from '../toolRenderers';
 import { JsonTreeViewer } from '@/components/ui/JsonTreeViewer';
 import { JsonSummaryView } from './JsonSummaryView';
@@ -841,11 +842,15 @@ const getToolOutputText = (
     part: ToolPartType,
     metadata: Record<string, unknown> | undefined,
 ): string => {
+    // Cap oversized payloads before JSON.parse / syntax highlighting / DOM work
+    // so a single huge tool output can't trigger a V8 Zone-allocation OOM that
+    // hard-crashes the renderer (issue #2265).
+    const capped = capToolOutputText(output);
     if (part.tool === 'bash') {
-        return output;
+        return capped;
     }
 
-    return formatEditOutput(output, part.tool, metadata);
+    return formatEditOutput(capped, part.tool, metadata);
 };
 
 const ToolScrollableTextOutput: React.FC<{
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/toolRenderers.test.ts b/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/toolRenderers.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..142ed4ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/toolRenderers.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import { describe, test, expect } from 'bun:test';
+
+import { capToolOutputText, TOOL_OUTPUT_MAX_CHARS } from './toolRenderers';
+
+// Regression coverage for issue #2265: the desktop renderer hard-crashes with a
+// V8 "Zone Allocation failed" OOM when a tool returns oversized external content
+// (e.g. a fetched Google Slides page with full-resolution base64 images inlined),
+// because the whole payload previously flowed through JSON.parse / syntax
+// highlighting / DOM rendering as a single unbounded JS string. capToolOutputText
+// is the bounded size guard that runs before any of that work.
+describe('capToolOutputText (issue #2265 renderer OOM guard)', () => {
+    test('exposes a sane positive default cap', () => {
+        expect(typeof TOOL_OUTPUT_MAX_CHARS).toBe('number');
+        expect(TOOL_OUTPUT_MAX_CHARS).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    });
+
+    test('returns short output unchanged', () => {
+        const output = 'hello world';
+        expect(capToolOutputText(output)).toBe(output);
+    });
+
+    test('returns output at exactly the cap unchanged', () => {
+        const output = 'a'.repeat(TOOL_OUTPUT_MAX_CHARS);
+        expect(capToolOutputText(output)).toBe(output);
+        expect(capToolOutputText(output).length).toBe(TOOL_OUTPUT_MAX_CHARS);
+    });
+
+    test('caps oversized output and never emits the full string', () => {
+        const oversized = 'x'.repeat(TOOL_OUTPUT_MAX_CHARS + 10_000);
+        const capped = capToolOutputText(oversized);
+
+        // The pathological full-size string must not survive to the renderer.
+        expect(capped.length).toBeLessThan(oversized.length);
+        // Head of the payload is preserved for the user.
+        expect(capped.startsWith('x'.repeat(1000))).toBe(true);
+        // A truncation notice is appended so the truncation is visible.
+        expect(capped).toContain('output truncated');
+        expect(capped).toContain('10000 more characters');
+    });
+
+    test('honors a custom cap', () => {
+        const output = 'abcdefghij'; // 10 chars
+        const capped = capToolOutputText(output, 4);
+        expect(capped.startsWith('abcd')).toBe(true);
+        expect(capped).toContain('output truncated');
+        // Only the first 4 chars of the original body are retained.
+        expect(capped).not.toContain('efghij');
+    });
+
+    test('simulated large webfetch payload is bounded well below original size', () => {
+        // ~6MB single string, matching the 5MB-20MB Zone-allocation trigger range
+        // described in the issue (a Slides page with embedded base64 images).
+        const base64Blob = 'QUJD'.repeat(1_500_000); // 6,000,000 chars
+        const capped = capToolOutputText(base64Blob);
+
+        expect(base64Blob.length).toBeGreaterThan(5_000_000);
+        expect(capped.length).toBeLessThan(TOOL_OUTPUT_MAX_CHARS + 256);
+        expect(capped).toContain('renderer from running out of memory');
+    });
+
+    test('non-string input is returned unchanged (defensive)', () => {
+        // @ts-expect-error verifying runtime robustness against non-string inputs
+        expect(capToolOutputText(undefined)).toBeUndefined();
+        // @ts-expect-error verifying runtime robustness against non-string inputs
+        expect(capToolOutputText(null)).toBeNull();
+    });
+});
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/toolRenderers.tsx b/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/toolRenderers.tsx
index 3c4dd773..2f90281d 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/toolRenderers.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/components/chat/message/toolRenderers.tsx
@@ -22,6 +22,28 @@ export const coerceToText = (value: unknown, fallback = ''): string => {
     }
 };
 
+// Guards the renderer process against V8 "Zone Allocation failed" OOM crashes
+// (issue #2265). When a tool returns oversized external content — e.g. a fetched
+// web page with full-resolution base64 images inlined — the entire payload flows
+// through this module as a single JS string that is JSON.parsed, syntax
+// highlighted, and attached to the DOM. A large enough single string exceeds
+// V8's Zone allocator and hard-crashes the renderer before any virtualization or
+// CSS clip can help. Capping the string length before that work happens keeps a
+// useful head of the output while preventing the pathological allocation.
+export const TOOL_OUTPUT_MAX_CHARS = 512 * 1024;
+
+export const capToolOutputText = (
+    output: string,
+    maxChars: number = TOOL_OUTPUT_MAX_CHARS,
+): string => {
+    if (typeof output !== 'string' || output.length <= maxChars) {
+        return output;
+    }
+    const omitted = output.length - maxChars;
+    const notice = `\n\n… [output truncated: ${omitted} more characters not shown to prevent the renderer from running out of memory]`;
+    return output.slice(0, maxChars) + notice;
+};
+
 const hasLspDiagnostics = (output: string): boolean => {
     if (!output) return false;
     return output.includes('<diagnostics')