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Add run_on_destroy to coder_script #341

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While there run_on_start and run_on_stop form a nice balance, some run_on_start scripts are actually meant to be balanced against a run_on_destroy trigger. As an example, using the run_on_start scripts to do a git clone of packages for the workspace, you naturally would not want to delete those when the workspace is stopped, however you might want to delete them when the workspace is destroyed.

A git clone is of course not a perfect example as we have terraform modules to do that for us already, and furthermore most providers are relying upon the containerization/virtualization provider to do cleanup when workspaces are destroyed, but if there are persistent resources being managed by coder_script snippets, it would be incredibly handy to have a run_on_destroy trigger to manage their lifecycles properly.

In my case, this is because I am using Coder to provide access directly to machines that have already been provisioned, and I use remote-exec to SSH into the devices and install the coder agent, then coder_script snippets to set up all kinds of state. I would like to clean that up properly upon workspace destruction.

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