NodeTool@ task fail on hosted agent

Question

Hi, I am running a pipeline on a macos-12 agent which has a NodeTool@ task

  - task: NodeTool@0  
            inputs:  
              versionSource: 'spec'  
              versionSpec: '16.x'  
              checkLatest: false  

This link: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/macos/macos-12-Readme.md
mentions that NodeJS 16.8.1 is cached in macos-12 hosted agents

However, I often (but not always) get the following error when running my pipeline:

##[error]Unable to create directory '/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/16.18.1/x64'. EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/opt/hostedtoolcache'  

Why?

Thank you
Kiko

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