SeraEdit: Scoped and Validated Language-Guided MusicXML Editing (SoftwareX R1 source and evidence)
Abstract
SeraEdit is local-first research software for scoped, source-bound MusicXML editing through ScorePatch transactions, deterministic validation and reversible execution. This SoftwareX R1 revision corrects fixture reproducibility and source-archive completeness, and includes saved DeepSeek three-condition outputs, a 200-case constructed-error study, and native MuseScore bridge evidence. On the development benchmark, strict editing success is 72/110 for Full Rewrite, 65/110 for Patch Only and 63/110 for Sera Full. Sera Full records no measured non-target changes among 73 output scores, but erroneously refuses 34 executable requests. These results demonstrate a protection/completion tradeoff, not overall superiority or held-out generalization. The 720-run rule-based replay is regression evidence on the same benchmark. Hosted CI passed 447 Python tests from an isolated source archive, 133 frontend tests, the production build, and 14 saved-live-evidence checks. The uploaded archives retain the exact tested bytes. Detailed commit provenance and verification reports are included. This deposit contains source and research evidence, with no new desktop installer. The manuscript snapshot represents the tested preparation stage; its pending publication fields do not describe the final journal submission. The original version remains at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22128976. Code is MIT licensed; the synthetic benchmark is CC0-1.0. Dependencies retain their own licenses.
