# action\_plugins must be categorized? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [May 24, 2013, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/action-plugins-must-be-categorized/12863 "2013-05-24T07:01:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@Dale](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dale)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2013, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/action-plugins-must-be-categorized/12863/1 "2013-05-24T07:01:43Z")
Hi, Per [http://ansible.cc/docs/api.html#distributing-plugins](http://ansible.cc/docs/api.html#distributing-plugins) I created action\_plugins/my\_plugin.py under the same directory that holds my top-level playbook. I also created library/my\_plugin, which I suspect has to exist, even if it’s just a stub. However, Ansible did not find my action plug-in. Instead it just tried to run the stub module. My reading of commit 391fb98e is that plug-ins will now only be found if they’re in a category subdirectory under e.g. action\_plugins. Sure enough, moving action\_plugins/my\_module.py to action\_plugins/whatever/my\_module.py made Ansible find my action plug-in. Should I be able to just have action\_plugins/my\_plugin.py, or must all plug-ins now be categorized? Should I file an issue (whether against code or docs)? Thanks, Dale ---
**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:** [May 24, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/action-plugins-must-be-categorized/12863/2 "2013-05-24T15:30:54Z")
It should not actually be true that they /have/ to be categorized, but rather that categorized paths are found _first_. Please file a ticket so we can test that action plugins with uncategorized documentation wrappers still get found. –Michael