diff --git a/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py b/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
index 18ef976496e..2f2be4228d9 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/parsing/splitter.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def _decode_escapes(s):
     return _ESCAPE_SEQUENCE_RE.sub(decode_match, s)
 
 
-def parse_kv(args, check_raw=False):
+def parse_kv(args, check_raw=False, action=None):
     """
     Convert a string of key/value items to a dict. If any free-form params
     are found and the check_raw option is set to True, they will be added
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ def parse_kv(args, check_raw=False):
     if trusted_tag := TrustedAsTemplate.get_tag(args):
         tags.append(trusted_tag)
 
+    # avoid circular import
+    from ansible.plugins.action import get_action_options
+
     args = to_text(args, nonstring='passthru')
 
     options = {}
@@ -87,7 +90,7 @@ def parse_kv(args, check_raw=False):
                 v = x[pos + 1:]
 
                 # FIXME: make the retrieval of this list of shell/command options a function, so the list is centralized
-                if check_raw and k not in ('creates', 'removes', 'chdir', 'executable', 'warn', 'stdin', 'stdin_add_newline', 'strip_empty_ends'):
+                if check_raw and k not in get_action_options(action):
                     raw_params.append(orig_x)
                 else:
                     options[k.strip()] = unquote(v.strip())
@@ -219,7 +222,6 @@ def split_args(args):
                 params[-1] += ' '
                 continue
 
-            # if we hit a line continuation character, but
             # we're not inside quotes, ignore it and continue
             # on to the next token while setting a flag
             if token == '\\' and not inside_quotes:
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py
index e259960299e..68290f3c414 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py
@@ -42,17 +42,10 @@ PATH_CACHE = {}  # type: dict[str, list[_t_loader.PluginPathContext] | None]
 PLUGIN_PATH_CACHE = {}  # type: dict[str, dict[str, dict[str, _t_loader.PluginPathContext]]]
 
 
-def get_plugin_class(obj):
-    if isinstance(obj, str):
-        return obj.lower().replace('module', '')
-    else:
-        return obj.__class__.__name__.lower().replace('module', '')
-
-
 class _ConfigurablePlugin(t.Protocol):
     """Protocol to provide type-safe access to config for plugin-related mixins."""
 
-    def get_option(self, option: str, hostvars: dict[str, object] | None = None) -> t.Any: ...
+    def get_option(self, option: str, hostvars: dict[str, object] | None = None) -> object: ...
 
 
 class _AnsiblePluginInfoMixin(_plugin_info.HasPluginInfo):
@@ -159,6 +152,10 @@ class AnsiblePlugin(_AnsiblePluginInfoMixin, _ConfigurablePlugin, metaclass=abc.
             self.set_options()
         return option in self._options
 
+    @property
+    def plugin_type(self):
+        return self.__class__.__name__.lower().replace('module', '')
+
     @property
     def option_definitions(self):
         if (not hasattr(self, "_defs")) or self._defs is None:
@@ -189,7 +186,7 @@ class AnsibleJinja2Plugin(AnsiblePlugin, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
     def plugin_type(self) -> str:
         ...
 
-    def _no_options(self, *args, **kwargs) -> t.NoReturn:
+    def _no_options(self, *args, **kwargs) -> t.Never:
         raise NotImplementedError()
 
     has_option = get_option = get_options = option_definitions = set_option = set_options = _no_options
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
index 881e0f414e1..6473cbad8f9 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/action/__init__.py
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ from ansible._internal._templating import _engine
 from ansible._internal import _task
 from .. import _AnsiblePluginInfoMixin
 
+from ansible.plugins.loader import module_loader
+from ansible.cli.doc import DocCLI
+
 display = Display()
 
 if t.TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -50,6 +53,19 @@ if t.TYPE_CHECKING:
 VariableLayer = _task.VariableLayer  # public API
 
 
+def get_action_options(action):
+    # avoid circulairty
+
+    if action is None:
+        # fallback/default hardcoded list from before
+        options = ('creates', 'removes', 'chdir', 'executable', 'warn', 'stdin', 'stdin_add_newline', 'strip_empty_ends')
+    else:
+        doc, *stuff = DocCLI._get_plugin_doc(action, 'module', module_loader, [])
+        options = doc.get('options', {}).keys()
+
+    return options
+
+
 def _validate_utf8_json(d):
     if isinstance(d, str):
         # Purposefully not using to_bytes here for performance reasons
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py
index 60e7efb0a06..731388ebb55 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/loader.py
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ class PluginLoader:
         for i in paths:
             if i not in ret:
                 ret.append(i)
-        return os.pathsep.join(ret)
+        return to_text(os.pathsep.join(ret), errors='surrogate_or_strict')
 
     def print_paths(self):
         return self.format_paths(self._get_paths(subdirs=False))
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ class PluginLoader:
 
         # plugins w/o class name don't support config
         if self.class_name:
-            type_name = get_plugin_class(self.class_name)
+            type_name = self.class_name.lower().replace('module', '')
 
             # if type name != 'module_doc_fragment':
             if type_name in C.CONFIGURABLE_PLUGINS and not C.config.has_configuration_definition(type_name, name):