Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
Annotations already declare readOnly, idempotent, non-destructive, so safety is covered. The description adds genuinely useful behavior: default page size, cursor pagination context, and the fact that sensitive fields (recipients, subject, content) are omitted from results.
Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.