Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
Annotations already declare readOnly, idempotent, and non-destructive, so the safety profile is established. The description adds meaningful behavior: the response is a public ladder by default, and providing a secret yields the caller's own rung. No mention of failure modes or response details, but annotations lower the bar for those.
Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.