I don't buy the strong microbiome puppeteering hypothesis, if that is what you are alluding to. The microbiome is probably more like a coevolving bioreactor that we need to produce precursors of several of our neurotransmitters (among many other things).
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I can go both ways on what I'm about to say but if humans have agency then that may be evidence that the universe does. A subset of those goals may well be in service of the universe's agency.
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I think that agency only makes sense as part of a model of an intentional system: Something must care. The universe is very likely not equipped with means and reasons to care, and even if it did, that could not manifest in ways that ground our own agency.
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I agree with the idea of increasing agency. So much of it is an accident of birth.
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Everything is an accident of birth. Us being born into this universe is.
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