Add `ActionState` type and make some initial use of it #8311

Job	Run time
Ruby analysis (macos-latest, default)	44s
Ruby analysis (ubuntu-latest, default)	46s
Ruby analysis (ubuntu-latest, nightly-latest)	41s
Ruby analysis (macos-latest, nightly-latest)	1m 10s
Ruby analysis (macos-latest, linked)	1m 0s
Ruby analysis (ubuntu-latest, linked)	35s
	4m 56s

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