simple_actions
- Software
- Middleware
- Library
A simplified ROS action server and client library for Python and C++, aimed at situations where only one goal is active at a time.
Source on GitHub: github.com/DLu/simple_actions (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit b5322eb (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit b5322eb (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Offers a simpler alternative to the rclpy and rclcpp action libraries, avoiding the future-based API.
- Targets simple use cases where there will never be two active goals at once.
- Action callbacks receive the regular Goal, Feedback and Result objects rather than wrapped versions.
- The action client prints a warning while it waits for a slow-to-connect server, then reports when the connection is made.
- Provides a server and a client implementation in both Python and C++.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit b5322eb.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 27 Feb 2026 on main
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
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