--- - name: Example with discouraged free-form syntax hosts: localhost tasks: - name: Create a placefolder file ansible.builtin.command: chdir=/tmp touch foo # <-- don't use shorthand changed_when: false - name: Use raw to echo ansible.builtin.raw: executable=/bin/bash echo foo # <-- don't use executable= changed_when: false - name: Testing anything else passed to raw except for string ansible.builtin.raw: args: "123" changed_when: false