Does the description disclose side effects, auth requirements, rate limits, or destructive behavior?
With no annotations, the description carries the full burden of behavioral disclosure. It clearly reveals that the tool performs environment checking and does not call the OCR API, which signals read-only, non-destructive behavior. It does not describe response semantics or failure behavior, but for a no-parameter self-check this is reasonably transparent.
Agents need to know what a tool does to the world before calling it. Descriptions should go beyond structured annotations to explain consequences.