[dragonwriter]

That's not “do-nothing” scripting, it's orchestration scripting for a process where the steps are executed by a human.

It's basically the minimal version of a standalone workflow automation; it's got crappy state storage and is really only good for a single human execution unit per script (or perhaps multiple swapped sequentially rather than in parallel), but it's an instance of a fairly well-known class of do-something software.