diff --git a/examples/playbook/modules/bin_bash_module.sh b/examples/playbook/modules/bin_bash_module.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..01abff0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/playbook/modules/bin_bash_module.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+exec >/tmp/derp
+echo "$1"
+cat "$1"
+
diff --git a/examples/playbook/modules/json_args_python.py b/examples/playbook/modules/json_args_python.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..45689584
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/playbook/modules/json_args_python.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# I am an Ansible Python JSONARGS module. I should receive an encoding string.
+
+import json
+import sys
+
+json_arguments = """<<INCLUDE_ANSIBLE_MODULE_JSON_ARGS>>"""
+
+print "{"
+print "  \"changed\": false,"
+print "  \"msg\": \"Here is my input\","
+print "  \"input\": [%s]" % (json_arguments,)
+print "}"
diff --git a/examples/playbook/modules/old_style_module.sh b/examples/playbook/modules/old_style_module.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..47e6afbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/playbook/modules/old_style_module.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# I am an Ansible old-style module.
+
+INPUT=$1
+
+[ ! -r "$INPUT" ] && {
+    echo "Usage: $0 <input.json>" >&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+echo "{"
+echo "  \"changed\": false,"
+echo "  \"msg\": \"Here is my input\","
+echo "  \"filname\": \"$INPUT\","
+echo "  \"input\": [\"$(cat $INPUT | tr \" \' )\"]"
+echo "}"
diff --git a/examples/playbook/modules/python_new_style_module.py b/examples/playbook/modules/python_new_style_module.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..06d031b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/playbook/modules/python_new_style_module.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# I am an Ansible new-style Python module. I should receive an encoding string.
+
+import json
+import sys
+
+# This is the magic marker Ansible looks for:
+# from ansible.module_utils.
+
+
+def usage():
+    sys.stderr.write('Usage: %s <input.json>\n' % (sys.argv[0],))
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# Also must slurp in our own source code, to verify the encoding string was
+# added.
+print 'WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF %r' % (sys.argv,)
+with open(sys.argv[0]) as fp:
+    me = fp.read()
+
+input_json = sys.stdin.read()
+
+print "{"
+print "  \"changed\": false,"
+print "  \"msg\": \"Here is my input\","
+print "  \"source\": [%s]," % (json.dumps(me),)
+print "  \"input\": [%s]" % (input_json,)
+print "}"
diff --git a/examples/playbook/modules/python_want_json_module.py b/examples/playbook/modules/python_want_json_module.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..bd12704e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/playbook/modules/python_want_json_module.py
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# I am an Ansible Python WANT_JSON module. I should receive an encoding string.
+
+import json
+import sys
+
+WANT_JSON = 1
+
+
+def usage():
+    sys.stderr.write('Usage: %s <input.json>\n' % (sys.argv[0],))
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+    usage()
+
+# Also must slurp in our own source code, to verify the encoding string was
+# added.
+with open(sys.argv[0]) as fp:
+    me = fp.read()
+
+try:
+    with open(sys.argv[1]) as fp:
+        input_json = fp.read()
+except IOError:
+    usage()
+
+print "{"
+print "  \"changed\": false,"
+print "  \"msg\": \"Here is my input\","
+print "  \"source\": [%s]," % (json.dumps(me),)
+print "  \"input\": [%s]" % (input_json,)
+print "}"
diff --git a/examples/playbook/modules/want_json_module.sh b/examples/playbook/modules/want_json_module.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..6053eacd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/playbook/modules/want_json_module.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# I am an Ansible WANT_JSON module.
+
+WANT_JSON=1
+INPUT=$1
+
+[ ! -r "$INPUT" ] && {
+    echo "Usage: $0 <input.json>" >&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+echo "{"
+echo "  \"changed\": false,"
+echo "  \"msg\": \"Here is my input\","
+echo "  \"input\": [$(< $INPUT)]"
+echo "}"