Would the implementation of some sort of scripting system involve AI programming? Because I didn't necessarily need or want the bot to know where things are or how to search for things, I thought that creating an AI would be unnecessary.

Thats the only reason I thought that I might be able to even consider something like this. Now my concept of bot development could be completely off, and I may not be understanding what you're saying, but if I just want to design some sort of system where an artificial player is following scripts of my design, why would I need to develop a game-specific AI?

Again I'm not really sure about what I'm talking about so I apologize if this is just noob speculation, but it sounded like I could avoid the entire bot development process, and just use some sort of shell or bot template (as you offered above) and then devise some way of communicating the scripts to it in the game.