Hi Kuba, Hi Claudiu,
Regarding our recent discussion about agency (link) and (link), here I found a quote from Richard, which answers Kuba’s “issue at core […] around this old dichotomy of free will vs determinism” (link) really clear without using the word ‘agency’ –
RESPONDENT: Richard, I have been considering what people mean by ‘free-will’ or ‘freedom of choice’, etc.
RICHARD: You may find the following to be of interest:
• [Co-Respondent]: ‘You think you have free will?
• [Richard]: ‘No.
• [Co-Respondent]: ‘What determines your actions?
• [Richard]: ‘The situation and the circumstances in the world of people, things and events’. (Richard, List C, No. 2a, 13 March 2000a).
And:
• [Richard]: ‘The ego – or even the soul as pure spirit – is not to be confused with will. The bodily needs are what motivates will – and will is nothing more grand than the nerve-organising data-correlating ability of the body – and it is will that is essential in order to operate and function … not an identity. Will is an organising process, an activity of the brain that correlates all the information and data that streams through the bodily senses. Will is not a ‘thing’, a subjectively substantial passionate ‘object’, like the identity is. Will, freed of the encumbrance of the ego and soul – which are born out of instinctual fear and aggression and nurture and desire – can operate smoothly, with actual sagacity. The operation of this freed will, is called intelligence. This intelligence is the body’s native intelligence … and has naught to do with any disembodied ‘Intelligence behind the Universe’ It is a joy to be me going about my business with freed-will in this wonderful physical world’. (page 76, Article 10; ‘Richard’s Journal’; Second Edition ©2004 The Actual Freedom Trust).
Comes a bit of a shock, that in actuality there is neither “determinism” nor “free will” but instead “this freed will, called intelligence.” 
Cheers Vineeto