Recording Smooth Slider with Actions not working

I'm trying to smooth a selected shape using scripts as part of a larger script. However, I have not found any way to automatically run the new object>path>smooth command. I have tried many things, including executeMenuCommand('smooth menu item'), which I could either get to do nothing, or crash, depending on what I had selected (and even if it worked, I imagined it would pop up the slider instead of running it with a pre-defined value so not really a good solution for my case.) I have also tried recording it as an action, since I know I can play those back through scripts, but it does not record the smooth slider at all. I can use Insert Menu Item to make it pop up, but, once again, I don't want it to pop up, I want it to run with a predefined value, like I'm able to do with the simplify command. I have tried very hard to get the simplify tool to do what I need, but it's just not capable, I need smooth to work. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if for some reason you decided not to allow this to be recorded, but please, let the smooth command be recorded by actions.