Can a script to randomly select an action within a specific set for use on multiple images?

Something like that?

// make variable to hold the name of the action set
var actionSet = "myActionSet";
// make variable to hold an array of action names you want to use from that set
var actionArray = ["Action 1","Action 2","Action 3","Action 4","Action 5","Action 6","Action 7","Action 8"];
// either hard code the folder path
// var sourceFolder = new Folder('~/desktop/booth');
// or prompt for folder
var sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select the booth pix folder");
// if prompting user make sure they didn't cancel the dialog without selecting a folder
if(sourceFolder != null ) {
    // make variable for processed folder
    var processedFolder = new Folder(sourceFolder+'/processed');
    // make sure it exists
    if(!processedFolder.exists) processedFolder.create();
    // get the files from the folder using a mask to only get certain file extensions
    var files = sourceFolder.getFiles(/\.jpg$/i);// here we are only getting jpeg files with .jpg or .JPG extension
    // now loop through the files and apply random action
    for(var f=0;f 
         
 
         
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