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> I always imagined some sort of standard, where apps and services can expose a set of pre-approved actions on the user's behalf

OS specific, but Apple has the Scripting Support API [0] and Shortcut API for their app. Works great.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/scripti...

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AppleScript support has sadly become more rare over time though, as more and more companies dig motes around their castles in effort to control and/or charge for interoperability. Phoned-in cross platform ports suffer this problem too.

Yep, and on Windows this is exposed through the COM api.

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