diff --git a/packages/backend-defaults/src/entrypoints/auth/external/legacy.test.ts b/packages/backend-defaults/src/entrypoints/auth/external/legacy.test.ts
index 43160b46da..a278e5766c 100644
--- a/packages/backend-defaults/src/entrypoints/auth/external/legacy.test.ts
+++ b/packages/backend-defaults/src/entrypoints/auth/external/legacy.test.ts
@@ -235,35 +235,5 @@ describe('LegacyTokenHandler', () => {
     ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
       `"Invalid type in config for key 'subject' in 'mock-config', got number, wanted string"`,
     );
-
-    // // old style add
-    // expect(() =>
-    //   handler.addOld(new ConfigReader({ secret: 'b2s=' })),
-    // ).not.toThrow();
-    // expect(() =>
-    //   handler.addOld(new ConfigReader({ _missingsecret: true })),
-    // ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
-    //   `"Missing required config value at 'secret' in 'mock-config'"`,
-    // );
-    // expect(() =>
-    //   handler.addOld(new ConfigReader({ secret: '' })),
-    // ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
-    //   `"Invalid type in config for key 'secret' in 'mock-config', got empty-string, wanted string"`,
-    // );
-    // expect(() =>
-    //   handler.addOld(new ConfigReader({ secret: 'has spaces' })),
-    // ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
-    //   `"Illegal secret, must be a valid base64 string"`,
-    // );
-    // expect(() =>
-    //   handler.addOld(new ConfigReader({ secret: 'hasnewline\n' })),
-    // ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
-    //   `"Illegal secret, must be a valid base64 string"`,
-    // );
-    // expect(() =>
-    //   handler.addOld(new ConfigReader({ secret: 3 })),
-    // ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
-    //   `"Invalid type in config for key 'secret' in 'mock-config', got number, wanted string"`,
-    // );
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/backend-defaults/src/entrypoints/auth/external/static.ts b/packages/backend-defaults/src/entrypoints/auth/external/static.ts
index fe7b9995a4..502150d5a8 100644
--- a/packages/backend-defaults/src/entrypoints/auth/external/static.ts
+++ b/packages/backend-defaults/src/entrypoints/auth/external/static.ts
@@ -50,50 +50,3 @@ export const staticTokenHandler = createExternalTokenHandler<{
     return undefined;
   },
 });
-
-/**
- * Handles `type: static` access.
- *
- * @internal
- */
-// export class StaticTokenHandler implements TokenHandler {
-//   #entries = new Map<
-//     string,
-//     {
-//       subject: string;
-//       allAccessRestrictions?: AccessRestrictionsMap;
-//     }
-//   >();
-
-//   constructor(configs: Config[]) {
-//     for (const config of configs) {
-//       this.add(config);
-//     }
-//   }
-//   private add(config: Config) {
-//     const token = config.getString('options.token');
-//     const subject = config.getString('options.subject');
-//     const allAccessRestrictions = readAccessRestrictionsFromConfig(config);
-
-//     if (!token.match(/^\S+$/)) {
-//       throw new Error('Illegal token, must be a set of non-space characters');
-//     } else if (token.length < MIN_TOKEN_LENGTH) {
-//       throw new Error(
-//         `Illegal token, must be at least ${MIN_TOKEN_LENGTH} characters length`,
-//       );
-//     } else if (!subject.match(/^\S+$/)) {
-//       throw new Error('Illegal subject, must be a set of non-space characters');
-//     } else if (this.#entries.has(token)) {
-//       throw new Error(
-//         'Static externalAccess token was declared more than once',
-//       );
-//     }
-
-//     this.#entries.set(token, { subject, allAccessRestrictions });
-//     return this;
-//   }
-
-//   async verifyToken(token: string) {
-//     return this.#entries.get(token);
-//   }
-// }