Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
Annotations already declare readOnlyHint=true, so the agent knows this is a safe read operation. The description adds valuable behavioral context: row markdown bodies are omitted by default, fields projection affects cost, and pagination is cursor-based. It doesn't describe the exact response format, but the output schema exists and covers that. The description adds meaningful behavioral detail beyond the annotations.
Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.