Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
Annotations already declare readOnlyHint/idempotentHint/non-destructive/openWorld=false, so safety is covered. The description still adds genuine behavioral detail beyond them: sentence counting is abbreviation-aware (titles, acronyms, initials, decimals, URLs, emails do not terminate a sentence) and unpunctuated text counts as one sentence, plus reading time is an estimate in minutes. That is exactly the kind of non-obvious counting behavior an agent cannot infer from annotations or schema.
Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.