Extend the Act system

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This is an epic ticket to manage Act system development:

• Add a way to cancel actions #463
• Enrich policy input #462
• Add queueing for async actions #464
• Refactor notification hooks #397
• Enable signals, policies and actions for all hook functions #468
• Add distributed runner for running actions #472
• Create helper functions to make writing policies easier #541
• Make actions extensible via plugins and/or a scripting language #467
• Implement triggers (chain of actions) #469
• Integrate with policy engines #470
• Investigate other signal sources #471