diff --git a/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml b/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml
index 77de5f2d295b4..99b18b3b230a6 100644
--- a/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml
+++ b/.github/actions/breeze/action.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ 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 4f1d06e86ff36..abc8c8c706790 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-images.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-images.yml
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ 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 02939daf4f187..4fb7c67d2b2f4 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -387,6 +387,8 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "${{needs.build-info.outputs.default-python-version}}"
           cache: 'pip'
           cache-dependency-path: ./dev/breeze/setup*
+        env:
+          AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY: /opt/hostedtoolache
       - run: python -m pip install --editable ./dev/breeze/
       - run: >
           breeze setup version ||
@@ -461,6 +463,8 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "${{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 &&
@@ -576,6 +580,8 @@ 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
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..61ccc28d6ba06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/sync_authors.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+---
+name: Sync authors list
+
+on:  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
+  schedule:
+    #        min   hr    dom   mon   dow
+    - cron: '11    01    *     *     *'     # daily at 1.11am
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  # only users with write access to apache/airflow can run manually
+  # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/manually-running-a-workflow
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
+  pull-requests: write
+
+jobs:
+  sync:
+    name: Sync
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, small]
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.10'
+        env:
+          AGENT_TOOLSDIRECTORY: /opt/hostedtoolache
+
+      - name: Requests
+        run: |
+          pip install requests toml
+
+      - name: Sync the authors list
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          python scripts/ci/runners/sync_authors.py
+          git config user.name "GitHub Actions"
+          git config user.email "actions@users.noreply.github.com"
+          if [ -n "$(git status --porcelain)" ]; then
+            branch=update-$(date +%s)
+            git add -A
+            git checkout -b $branch
+            git commit --message "Authors list automatic update"
+            git push origin $branch
+            gh pr create --title "Authors list automatic update" --body ''
+          fi