diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
-
+- Deprecate basculechecks and basculemetrics packages. [#578](https://github.com/xmidt-org/webpa-common/pull/578)
 
 ## [v1.11.6]
 - Use updated Argus client with OpenTelemetry integration. [#573](https://github.com/xmidt-org/webpa-common/pull/573) thanks to @utsavbatra5
diff --git a/basculechecks/doc.go b/basculechecks/doc.go
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@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright 2021 Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+
+/*
+Package basculechecks provides bascule validators for JWT capability checking.
+
+Deprecated: basculechecks is no longer planned to be used by future WebPA/XMiDT
+services.
+
+This package is frozen and no new functionality will be added. Fixes may be made
+in order to maintain compatibility with github.com/xmidt-org/bascule for
+services dependent on this package.
+*/
+
+package basculechecks
diff --git a/basculemetrics/doc.go b/basculemetrics/doc.go
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@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright 2021 Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+
+/*
+Package basculemetrics provides bascule-compatible metric middleware that tracks
+if requests were authorized or not.
+
+Deprecated: basculemetrics is no longer planned to be used by future WebPA/XMiDT
+services.
+
+This package is frozen and no new functionality will be added. Fixes may be made
+in order to maintain compatibility with github.com/xmidt-org/bascule for
+services dependent on this package.
+*/
+
+package basculemetrics