There's some papers on this. They usually refer to these commands as a "domain-specific language". I know of this article https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.08381.pdf where they define some basic functions to start and then it attempts to learn higher-order functions while building a program to solve a specified task.

There was an interesting Kaggle competition a few years back by Francois Chollet where competitors had to come up with a method that can generate short programs to solve simple tasks. https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/abstraction-and-reasoning-challenge It ended up being quite challenging