# issues with action plugin

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-with-action-plugin/17395>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Created:** [January 29, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-with-action-plugin/17395 "2015-01-29T00:16:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![J11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@J11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/J11)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-with-action-plugin/17395/1 "2015-01-29T00:16:21Z")

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All,

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Created fairly simply action plugin (more or less copied from one of the action plugins bundled with Ansible) and can’t seem to use it.

Playbook looks as follows:

- hosts: all  
remote\_user: automate  
gather\_facts: False  
tasks:
- name: test  
sudo: yes  
newaction: \>  
bits=4096  
force=true

When I attempt to run the playbook I get the following error:  
ERROR: newaction is not a legal parameter in an Ansible task or handler

My ansible.cfg has an action\_plugin directive, as follows:

$ cat ~/.ansible.cfg | grep action  
action\_plugins = /home/j/ansible/custom\_plugins

Any ideas on what I’m missing?

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-with-action-plugin/17395/2 "2015-01-29T00:40:00Z")

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action plugins need a corresponding task plugin (module/library) even  
if only as documentation (look at template)

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**Author:** ![J11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@J11](https://forum.ansible.com/u/J11)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issues-with-action-plugin/17395/3 "2015-01-30T19:59:22Z")

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Thank you Brian. That did the trick.