Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

I created a ssh key

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "awwthentic@gmail.com"

I then attempted to add the key to the SSH authentication agent and got this error

because I named the ssh key a non conventional name (id_gitlab_selectiont), the following steps are required

eval `ssh-agent -s`

now

ssh-add /root/.ssh/id_gitlab_selectiont

we good