I like this proposal a lot! It seems to solve most (if not all) of the pain points automations currently have.
It also feels much more scalable for new Triggers and Actions. I imagine this opening the doors for easily adding additional triggers - like theme_created or theme_updated - without having to worry about how they interact with pre-existing scripts. New triggers would instantly gain access to every existing action (Slack notifications, PMs, LLM calls, etc.). The same applies to creating additional actions like assign_badge, add_to_group, add_to_logs_and_screening and so on.
Ohhhh, and “Dry run” and “Execution logs” are also spot on - having that level of observability into how things actually run is a total life saver.