zsh-quickstart-kit: load-our-ssh-keys() function doesn't work on Arch Linux

I am not sure if this is Arch specific but my ssh key is never loaded during the start-up of a new shell/terminal.

I see output like this:

-- console output produced during zsh initialization follows --

load-our-ssh-keys:6: no such file or directory: .ssh/ssh-agent
cat: .ssh/ssh-agent: No such file or directory
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

Current SSH Keys:
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

I have tried debugging and because the kit redirects the ssh-add cmd to /dev/null I never see the actual error message:

-- console output produced during zsh initialization follows --

Agent pid 40928
ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory```

If I add the ssh-add command to my config in the ~/.zshrc.d/ folder it gives the same askpass error as above. From reading up on this on a few SO pages its to do with the env var SSH_ASKPASS

I have installed this package but it still fails: community/openssh-askpass 2.1.0-3 [0B 2.61MiB] [Installed]

I found this link on StackExchange, it may be helpful.