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From my point of view the only config I had, was line

ssh-add -k

in my .bashrc and it was working. I.e. I was able to do ssh -A and was seeing my key with ssh-add -l on remote hosts.

Suddenly this line started to cause 

Error connecting to agent: No such file or directory

and I read this means agent is not running and to run it I need to execute something like eval $(ssh-agent -s)

Why? How was it working before then?

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  • The error could mean that while the agent may be alive and well, the communication socket was moved or deleted (see $SSH_AUTH_SOCK). A dead agent on an existing socket file would not give a "no such file or directory" error (I think). – Kusalananda Oct 14 '19 at 11:02

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