diff --git a/home/private_dot_config/zsh/zexists.d/cmd/gpg.zsh b/home/private_dot_config/zsh/zexists.d/cmd/gpg.zsh
index 9f3327e..fa8899f 100644
--- a/home/private_dot_config/zsh/zexists.d/cmd/gpg.zsh
+++ b/home/private_dot_config/zsh/zexists.d/cmd/gpg.zsh
@@ -2,3 +2,10 @@
 
 export GPG_TTY="$TTY"
 gpgconf --launch gpg-agent
+
+# have gpg-agent be the ssh-agent
+# idea taken from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GnuPG#SSH_agent
+if [[ -z "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ]]; then
+    export SSH_AGENT_PID=""
+    export SSH_AUTH_SOCK="${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh"
+fi