Governed Metaprogramming for Intelligent Systems: Reclassifying Eval as a Governed Effec

ArXi:2605.05248v1 Announce Type: cross AI systems increasingly synthesize executable structure at runtime: LLMs generate programs, agents construct workflows,self-improving systems modify their own behavior. In classical homoiconic and staged languages, the transition from coderepresentation to execution is unrestricted. eval is a language primitive, not a governed operation. We argue that ingovernedintelligent systems, this transition is an authority amplification: it converts symbolic structure into executableauthority andmust be mediated like any other effect.