explain_cron

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Use this when you need to understand or schedule a 5-field cron expression. Prefer this over reasoning about cron semantics yourself (a documented LLM failure mode): it correctly handles ranges, lists, steps, month/day names, and the tricky day-of-month OR day-of-week rule. Deterministic: same input, same output. Returns a plain-English description, the expanded matching values per field, and the next run times computed in UTC (pass `now` to fix the reference point, `count` for how many). Example: '*/15 9-17 * * 1-5' -> description 'At minute */15 past hour 9-17 on every weekday (Monday through Friday)'.