diff --git a/python/packages/orchestrations/agent_framework_orchestrations/_handoff.py b/python/packages/orchestrations/agent_framework_orchestrations/_handoff.py
index 9403a4ec2f..948f780641 100644
--- a/python/packages/orchestrations/agent_framework_orchestrations/_handoff.py
+++ b/python/packages/orchestrations/agent_framework_orchestrations/_handoff.py
@@ -299,6 +299,11 @@ def _clone_chat_agent(self, agent: Agent[Any]) -> Agent[Any]:
             context_providers=agent.context_providers,
             middleware=agent.middleware,
             require_per_service_call_history_persistence=agent.require_per_service_call_history_persistence,
+            # Shared by reference rather than deep-copied, like `context_providers` and
+            # `middleware` above: both hold immutable configuration the clone never mutates,
+            # and a tokenizer can carry a vocabulary that is expensive or unsafe to copy.
+            compaction_strategy=agent.compaction_strategy,
+            tokenizer=agent.tokenizer,
             default_options=cloned_options,  # type: ignore[assignment]
             additional_properties=deepcopy(agent.additional_properties),
         )
diff --git a/python/packages/orchestrations/tests/test_handoff.py b/python/packages/orchestrations/tests/test_handoff.py
index 97b2a42e4f..a6fa08148a 100644
--- a/python/packages/orchestrations/tests/test_handoff.py
+++ b/python/packages/orchestrations/tests/test_handoff.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 # Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.
 
+import ast
+import inspect
 import os
 import re
+import textwrap
 from collections.abc import AsyncIterable, Awaitable, Mapping, Sequence
 from typing import Annotated, Any, cast
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock
@@ -12,6 +15,7 @@
     AgentContext,
     AgentResponse,
     AgentResponseUpdate,
+    CharacterEstimatorTokenizer,
     ChatOptions,
     ChatResponse,
     ChatResponseUpdate,
@@ -20,6 +24,7 @@
     InMemoryHistoryProvider,
     Message,
     ResponseStream,
+    ToolResultCompactionStrategy,
     WorkflowEvent,
     WorkflowRunState,
     agent_middleware,
@@ -985,6 +990,98 @@ async def observe_properties(context: AgentContext, call_next):
     assert cloned_additional_properties is not coordinator.additional_properties
 
 
+async def test_handoff_clone_preserves_compaction_strategy_and_tokenizer() -> None:
+    """Handoff clones must keep agent-level compaction configuration (#8320).
+
+    Both live outside ``default_options``, so rebuilding the agent through its constructor
+    drops them unless they are forwarded explicitly. The clone then silently falls back to
+    no compaction, and a long handoff conversation grows unbounded until it trips the
+    model's context limit -- a failure that shows up as cost and latency long before it
+    shows up as an error.
+    """
+    strategy = ToolResultCompactionStrategy()
+    tokenizer = CharacterEstimatorTokenizer()
+
+    coordinator = Agent(
+        id="coordinator",
+        name="coordinator",
+        client=MockChatClient(name="coordinator"),
+        compaction_strategy=strategy,
+        tokenizer=tokenizer,
+        require_per_service_call_history_persistence=True,
+    )
+    specialist = Agent(
+        id="specialist",
+        name="specialist",
+        client=MockChatClient(name="specialist"),
+        require_per_service_call_history_persistence=True,
+    )
+
+    workflow = (
+        HandoffBuilder(
+            participants=_as_handoff_agents(coordinator, specialist),
+            termination_condition=lambda conversation: any(msg.role == "assistant" for msg in conversation),
+        )
+        .with_start_agent(_as_handoff_agent(coordinator))
+        .build()
+    )
+
+    await _drain(workflow.run("hello", stream=True))
+
+    executor = workflow.executors[resolve_agent_id(coordinator)]
+    assert isinstance(executor, HandoffAgentExecutor)
+    cloned = cast(Agent, executor.agent)
+
+    # Shared by reference, like context_providers and middleware: these hold immutable
+    # configuration, and a tokenizer may carry a vocabulary that is costly to copy.
+    assert cloned.compaction_strategy is strategy
+    assert cloned.tokenizer is tokenizer
+
+
+def test_handoff_clone_forwards_every_agent_constructor_field() -> None:
+    """Guard against the next field being dropped the way #8320 dropped two.
+
+    ``_clone_chat_agent`` rebuilds the agent by listing constructor arguments by hand, so
+    every parameter added to ``Agent.__init__`` has to be added here too or it is silently
+    lost. That has already happened repeatedly -- the ``test_handoff_clone_preserves_*``
+    tests above were each written after a field went missing. This asserts the inverse:
+    every constructor parameter is either forwarded or named below as deliberately handled
+    another way, so a new parameter fails here instead of in a user's workflow.
+    """
+    handled_elsewhere = {
+        # Recombined with `agent.mcp_tools` and passed through `default_options["tools"]`,
+        # because the constructor re-separates MCP tools from regular ones.
+        "tools",
+        # Carried inside `default_options` rather than as its own argument.
+        "instructions",
+    }
+
+    parameters = {
+        name
+        for name, param in inspect.signature(Agent.__init__).parameters.items()
+        if name != "self" and param.kind not in (param.VAR_POSITIONAL, param.VAR_KEYWORD)
+    }
+
+    # Read the keyword names off the `Agent(...)` call itself rather than substring-matching
+    # the source: a commented-out argument would satisfy a substring check, and renaming the
+    # local would break every match at once.
+    tree = ast.parse(textwrap.dedent(inspect.getsource(HandoffAgentExecutor._clone_chat_agent)))
+    forwarded = {
+        keyword.arg
+        for node in ast.walk(tree)
+        if isinstance(node, ast.Call) and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name) and node.func.id == "Agent"
+        for keyword in node.keywords
+        if keyword.arg is not None
+    }
+    assert forwarded, "could not find the Agent(...) call in _clone_chat_agent; this guard needs updating"
+
+    missing = parameters - forwarded - handled_elsewhere
+    assert not missing, (
+        f"_clone_chat_agent does not forward {sorted(missing)}; add them to the Agent(...) "
+        f"call, or to `handled_elsewhere` with a comment saying why."
+    )
+
+
 def test_clean_conversation_for_handoff_keeps_text_only_history() -> None:
     """Tool-control messages must be excluded from persisted handoff history."""
     function_call = Content.from_function_call(