Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
Annotations already cover safety (readOnly, idempotent, non-destructive), yet the description adds genuinely non-obvious behavior: no model re-invocation, no quota consumption, honoring pollAfterMs between reads, and that an error does not constitute a finished result. Return shape is left to the output schema.
Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.