Automatically create project tasks based on portfolio rules

Thinking about the newly launched portfolio rules, and wondering if we could have a rule action for adding a task (from a template, maybe with some automatable data entry) into a project?

the immediate case I see would be if in my portfolio, if a project status is updated and set “at risk”, I want an action / set of actions created in the project (assigned to the project manager, or maybe who updated the status) to schedule a call with the steering committee, or maybe it’s a task to the PMO team lead to connect with the PM and discuss, etc…

The other case I see would be once a project status is updated to “Complete”, i want to push a few tasks in for administrative cleanup; yes, we could build that with a template, but the tasks might change between project start and completion; building a task template in a bundle might address it, but only if the template isn’t added early on

Another use case I have for this is certain portfolios will have standard tasks that need to be in the project, e.g. if we have a project in our PMO portfolio, but then we discover the project will need Development resources, we can add it to the Dev team’s portfolio - that portfolio then adds tasks to review resourcing, define user requirements, build an api, etc…

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I would really much like to have most of the same actions available in the project rules (probably not also for portfolios) that are available within projects for tasks. Especially the ability to create a new task would be most useful to m e at the moment.