diff --git a/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml b/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml
index 99b18b3b230a6..77de5f2d295b4 100644
--- a/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ runs:
         python-version: 3.8
         cache: 'pip'
         cache-dependency-path: ./dev/breeze/setup*
-      env:
-        AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY: /opt/hostedtoolache
     - name: Cache breeze
       uses: actions/cache@v3
       with:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-images.yml b/.github/workflows/build-images.yml
index abc8c8c706790..4f1d06e86ff36 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-images.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-images.yml
@@ -111,8 +111,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
           python-version: 3.8
-        env:
-          AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY: /opt/hostedtoolache
       - name: "Retrieve defaults from branch_defaults.py"
         # We cannot "execute" the branch_defaults.py python code here because that would be
         # a security problem (we cannot run any code that comes from the sources coming from the PR.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 4fb7c67d2b2f4..02939daf4f187 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -387,8 +387,6 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "${{needs.build-info.outputs.default-python-version}}"
           cache: 'pip'
           cache-dependency-path: ./dev/breeze/setup*
-        env:
-          AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY: /opt/hostedtoolache
       - run: python -m pip install --editable ./dev/breeze/
       - run: >
           breeze setup version ||
@@ -463,8 +461,6 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "${{needs.build-info.outputs.default-python-version}}"
           cache: 'pip'
           cache-dependency-path: ./dev/requirements.txt
-        env:
-          AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY: /opt/hostedtoolache
       - name: "Test examples of PROD image building"
         run: >
           cd ./docker_tests &&
@@ -580,8 +576,6 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "${{needs.build-info.outputs.default-python-version}}"
           cache: 'pip'
           cache-dependency-path: ./dev/breeze/setup*
-        env:
-          AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY: /opt/hostedtoolache
       - name: "Install Breeze"
         uses: ./.github/actions/breeze
         id: breeze
diff --git a/.github/workflows/sync_authors.yml b/.github/workflows/sync_authors.yml
index 61ccc28d6ba06..04d56879c0fe4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/sync_authors.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/sync_authors.yml
@@ -43,8 +43,6 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
           python-version: '3.10'
-        env:
-          AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY: /opt/hostedtoolache
 
       - name: Requests
         run: |