# action\_plugins are not loaded relative to current playbook **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [February 20, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/action-plugins-are-not-loaded-relative-to-current-playbook/14606 "2014-02-20T15:36:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dmitry\_Horbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Dmitry\_Horbach](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dmitry_Horbach)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/action-plugins-are-not-loaded-relative-to-current-playbook/14606/1 "2014-02-20T15:36:41Z")
Hi All, Could someone please help with spotting problem in my actions or confirm that there is a problem in Ansible. Based on [action\_plugins are not loaded relative to current playbook · Issue #6089 · ansible/ansible · GitHub](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/6089) I’m trying to load action plugin from playbook’s relative directory “action\_plugins” tree ├── action\_plugins │ ├── category │ │ └── extract.py │ └── extract.py └── test.yml 2 directories, 3 files in test.yml: - hosts: all tasks: - extract: name=test The result is ERROR: extract is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler extract.py: cat action\_plugins/extract.py #!/usr/bin/python # -_- coding: utf-8 -_- ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/action-plugins-are-not-loaded-relative-to-current-playbook/14606/2 "2014-02-20T15:45:48Z")
Action plugins don’t have categories, that is probably it. – Michael ---
**Author:** ![Dmitry\_Horbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Dmitry\_Horbach](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dmitry_Horbach)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/action-plugins-are-not-loaded-relative-to-current-playbook/14606/3 "2014-02-20T19:02:41Z")
I put module into category and one level above but Looks like I confused modules and action plugins and they are of different type. Is there any way to distribute core modules relatively to playbook?