"Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."

[altano]

I ran choco install openssh /SSHAgentFeature and verified that the SSH Server Broker and SSH Server Proxy services were installed and running.

Unfortunately I'm not sure what to do next: every ssh command gives the error "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent." e.g.:

PS C:\src> ssh-add C:\Users\alan\.ssh\id_rsa
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

What am i doing wrong?

[manojampalam]

SSH Server Broker and SSH Server Proxy services were installed and running are a different and independent implementations of SSH (they do not support ssh-agent and its operations) see here

You will need to install OpenSSH bits from here

[altano]

Question 1: So choco install openssh /SSHAgentFeature (and the chocolately install in general) can't be used if one wants to make use of ssh-agent?

Question 2: how does one make use of ssh-agent from the OpenSSH port to have persistent authentication? E.g. Being prompted for the password to my key the first time I open my console or the first time ssh runs, but not subsequently. Are there any guides/tutorials? I have this working using Pageant and posh-git on another machine but I'd love to be able to replace those with this port.

[altano]

Oh I see from your link that those services are from enabling dev mode, not from the choco install of openssh. So my second question remains: I've installed this port using chocolately: now what? How do I use ssh-agent from this port to get the same functionality as Pageant?