Ansible searches for files in different places depending on which part of ansible you are using. The `getcwd` role just looks up your current working directory and provides it as the variable 'basedir'. This way, you can do things like this:

using-working-dir.yaml

- hosts: webservers

  vars_files:
    - vars/web-archival-config.yaml

  roles:
    - getcwd

    - role: cron-job
      frequency: hourly
      template: '{{ basedir + "templates/archive.sh" }}'
      dest: ~/bin/archive.sh