Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
Annotations already declare readOnly/idempotent/non-destructive, so the safety bar is lower; the description earns credit by disclosing that results are quarantined and never interleaved with accepted responses, that a separate tool is needed to change state, and that respondent content is untrusted. It does not cover pagination limits or ordering, but the extra context is substantive.
Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.