diff --git a/packages/contracts-bedrock/scripts/DeployAuthSystem.s.sol b/packages/contracts-bedrock/scripts/DeployAuthSystem.s.sol
index cca7f054afcd9..3241530dac058 100644
--- a/packages/contracts-bedrock/scripts/DeployAuthSystem.s.sol
+++ b/packages/contracts-bedrock/scripts/DeployAuthSystem.s.sol
@@ -78,16 +78,7 @@ contract DeployAuthSystemOutput is CommonBase {
     }
 }
 
-// For all broadcasts in this script we explicitly specify the deployer as `msg.sender` because for
-// testing we deploy this script from a test contract. If we provide no argument, the foundry
-// default sender would be the broadcaster during test, but the broadcaster needs to be the deployer
-// since they are set to the initial proxy admin owner.
 contract DeployAuthSystem is Script {
-    // -------- Core Deployment Methods --------
-
-    // This entrypoint is for end-users to deploy from an input file and write to an output file.
-    // In this usage, we don't need the input and output contract functionality, so we deploy them
-    // here and abstract that architectural detail away from the end user.
     function run(string memory _infile, string memory _outfile) public {
         // End-user without file IO, so etch the IO helper contracts.
         (DeployAuthSystemInput dasi, DeployAuthSystemOutput daso) = etchIOContracts();
@@ -102,7 +93,6 @@ contract DeployAuthSystem is Script {
         daso.writeOutputFile(_outfile);
     }
 
-    // This entrypoint is useful for testing purposes, as it doesn't use any file I/O.
     function run(DeployAuthSystemInput _dasi, DeployAuthSystemOutput _daso) public {
         deploySafe(_dasi, _daso);
     }
@@ -110,9 +100,6 @@ contract DeployAuthSystem is Script {
     function deploySafe(DeployAuthSystemInput _dasi, DeployAuthSystemOutput _daso) public {
         address[] memory owners = _dasi.owners();
         uint256 threshold = _dasi.threshold();
-        // Silence unused variable warnings
-        owners;
-        threshold;
 
         // TODO: replace with a real deployment. The safe deployment logic is fairly complex, so for the purposes of
         // this scaffolding PR we'll just etch the code.
@@ -126,10 +113,6 @@ contract DeployAuthSystem is Script {
         _daso.set(_daso.safe.selector, safe);
     }
 
-    // This etches the IO contracts into memory so that we can use them in tests. When using file IO
-    // we don't need to call this directly, as the `DeployAuthSystem.run(file, file)` entrypoint
-    // handles it. But when interacting with the script programmatically (e.g. in a Solidity test),
-    // this must be called.
     function etchIOContracts() public returns (DeployAuthSystemInput dasi_, DeployAuthSystemOutput daso_) {
         (dasi_, daso_) = getIOContracts();
         vm.etch(address(dasi_), type(DeployAuthSystemInput).runtimeCode);
@@ -138,7 +121,6 @@ contract DeployAuthSystem is Script {
         vm.allowCheatcodes(address(daso_));
     }
 
-    // This returns the addresses of the IO contracts for this script.
     function getIOContracts() public view returns (DeployAuthSystemInput dasi_, DeployAuthSystemOutput daso_) {
         dasi_ = DeployAuthSystemInput(DeployUtils.toIOAddress(msg.sender, "optimism.DeployAuthSystemInput"));
         daso_ = DeployAuthSystemOutput(DeployUtils.toIOAddress(msg.sender, "optimism.DeployAuthSystemOutput"));