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Is there one rule and sensor that applies to all actions?

Platform Rules
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Hello,

I’m searching for a general way to write rules and sensors.

For example, I have 2 timing action: action_a, action_b:

**action_a brief definition:**
parameters:
  param_a_1:
    type: object
    required: true
  param_a_2:
    type: object
    required: true

**action_b brief definition:**
parameters:
  param_b_1:
    type: string
    required: true
  param_b_2:
    type: array
    required: true
  param_b_3:
    type: string
    required: true

I save the action and its param as key-value pair(change to yaml for human read) in stackstorm mongodb:

deploy_time: "2021-08-19 23:00"
action: pack1.action_a
params:
  param_a_1:
    key_1: value_1
  param_a_2:
    key_a_2: value_a_2

deploy_time: "2021-08-19 23:00"
action: pack2.action_b
params:
  param_b_1: "string_1"
  param_b_2:
    - object_1
    - object_2
  param_b_3: "string_3"

Then I write a sensor to read stackstorm Datastore. Sensor will compare current system time and deploy_time, if current system time is later than deploy_time, sensor will generate a playload to rule.

As you can image, I have to write 3 very similar file( sensor.py; sensor.yaml; rule.yaml ) for each action. The only difference between them is payload_schema section of sensor.yaml
and action section of rule.yaml.
sensor.py is almost exactly the same.

Is there a general way to write rules and sensors?