agent check
A moment of self-assessment or peer evaluation to determine whether someone is acting as an agent — i.e., pushing their own agenda, doing the work of someone else's interests, or operating with hidden motivations.
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A moment of self-assessment or peer evaluation to determine whether someone is acting as an agent — i.e., pushing their own agenda, doing the work of someone else's interests, or operating with hidden motivations. Used online to call out behavior that seems weirdly loyal to an unpopular position or brand.
Bro defended that awful game for 20 minutes straight — agent check, is he PR?
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- agentic check81%
An agentic check is a pause or review moment where you assess whether something — a workflow, a decision, a person's vibe — is operating with genuine autonomous, self-directed energy or just going through the motions. Borrowed from AI discourse where 'agentic' describes systems capable of independent action, the slang extends that idea to human behavior: are you actually making moves on your own initiative or waiting for permission? An agentic check is the moment you audit your own autonomy or call out someone else's lack of it.
- action check69%
A quick audit of whether someone is actually putting in effort or just talking. An action check cuts through all the plans, promises, and big energy to ask the real question: what have you actually done? Usually deployed as a reality check on someone who speaks in future tense constantly — always about to make a move, always one step away from doing something — but somehow the timeline never arrives. Action checks expose the gap between personality and follow-through with surgical efficiency.
- ag check68%
A moment of verification or acknowledgment that someone is displaying authentic AG (actual gangster or aggressive go-getter) behavior. Used online to call out, confirm, or question whether someone's actions genuinely live up to the AG label, often as playful social accountability.
- actioning check67%
A quick audit — personal or public — of whether you're actually following through on what you said you'd do, or just talking about following through convincingly. An actioning check cuts through the endless planning, the beautifully formatted to-do lists, and the very detailed emails about intentions to ask whether anything is actually getting done. Used affectionately as self-accountability or pointedly as a call-out. The friend who texts "actioning check: did you send that email yet" is both annoying and valuable.
- agendapost check66%
Calling out or pausing to evaluate whether a post or statement is genuinely informative or is actually disguised advocacy — a moment of public or private scrutiny applied to content that appears neutral on the surface but is clearly pushing a specific angle. Used both as a call-to-action and as a caption under obvious agendaposting.