Unfortunately, console appears to be effectively ignored by the developers and it's pretty obvious when you're in it. There's just a lot of things that you can't do. It's a shame, too, because ansible is particularly frustrating to write for me coming from chef where everything is written in pure ruby and the REPL is basically just IRB with some extra stuff. Having an interactive environment to see how the data I'm handling is being transformed would be helpful, but ansible-console just doesn't do what I need most of the time.