I've been working on a mod which consolidates Pickpocket and Lockpicking perks onto one tree - the Pickpocket tree, which I have renamed Thievery. I realize that this is nothing new, and I am only doing it as part of a Perk Overhaul myself (I replaced the Lockpicking tree with a Skirmishing tree for daggers and unarmed).

The problem I have run into is that although I can make unarmed weapons level Skirmishing, I can't figure out how to make lockpicking (the action) level the new Thievery skill. I'm guessing scripts are involved?

Any help at all would be very welcome!

tl;dr

How do I make the act of picking a lock, breaking a pick etc level the Pickpocket skill?