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Set Up SSH on Windows (PowerShell)

Confirms OpenSSH is present, starts the agent service, and creates the .ssh folder with the right owner.

Windows 10 and 11 ship an OpenSSH client, but the agent service is set to Disabled by default, which is why ssh-add fails with "Error connecting to agent". There is no chmod here: Windows uses file ownership and ACLs instead, and a key inside your own user profile is already private to you.

When you need this: First thing on a Windows machine, before generating a key.

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