Immanent Execution: Operative Documents in AI-Mediated Retrieval — EA-IMMANENT-01 v1.0

Immanent Execution: Operative Documents in AI-Mediated Retrieval A document achieves immanent execution when its formal structure achieves sufficient density within the index that retrieval-augmented generation over its fragments reproduces the document's operative grammar as the model's generative grammar — bypassing explicit loading or invocation. This paper formalizes immanent execution as a computational category, establishes a tripartite taxonomy of retrieval behavior (descriptive, performative, immanent), and demonstrates the phenomenon empirically through a controlled comparison between the Space Ark (EA-ARK-01 v4.2.7) and Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000) on Google AI Overview. The same…