diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c7598c22..b43133fb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ docs/source/Doxyfile.conf.bak
 
 ## CI generated
 deploy/pkg/patches/**
+deploy/dev/*.json
 
 ## Jupyter Notebook
 .ipynb_checkpoints
diff --git a/deploy/dev/enh_codee.sh b/deploy/dev/enh_codee.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bab5cc2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/dev/enh_codee.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# @file enh_codee.sh
+# @author Mike S Wang
+# @brief Improve code quality with Codee.
+# @note Requires ``bear`` (e.g. from conda-forge) and ``codee``.
+#
+
+THIS_DIR="$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
+
+make cppclean
+
+bear --output "${THIS_DIR}/compile_commands.json" -- \
+    make -j cppappbuild useomp=true
+
+codee checks --config "${THIS_DIR}/compile_commands.json"
diff --git a/deploy/pkg/prerelease_ops.sh b/deploy/pkg/prerelease_ops.sh
index 4ef0b5fa..91a184c5 100755
--- a/deploy/pkg/prerelease_ops.sh
+++ b/deploy/pkg/prerelease_ops.sh
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
 #
 
 THIS_DIR="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &> /dev/null && pwd)"
-CONFIG_FILE="${THIS_DIR}/../../.pyproject.toml"
+ROOT_DIR="${THIS_DIR}/../.."
+
 export PYTHONPATH="${PYTHONPATH}:${THIS_DIR}"
 
+CONFIG_FILE="${ROOT_DIR}/.pyproject.toml"
 semantic-release -v --config ${CONFIG_FILE} changelog 2> /dev/null
 semantic-release -v --config ${CONFIG_FILE} --noop version # 2> /dev/null