From 95b62e5a4f7d10676e54ad1bac57701ba4410b2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sofisl <55454395+sofisl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:02:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add deprecation notice to README

Added deprecation notice for the repository.
---
 README.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dff0fde1d..3d3f98302 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 [//]: # "To regenerate it, use `python -m synthtool`."
 <img src="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/2810941?v=3&s=96" alt="Google Cloud Platform logo" title="Google Cloud Platform" align="right" height="96" width="96"/>
 
+**_THIS REPOSITORY IS DEPRECATED We encourage users to migrate to [OpenTelemetry JS Instrumentation][otel] instead._**
+
+
 # [Cloud Trace: Node.js Client](https://github.com/googleapis/cloud-trace-nodejs)
 
 [![release level](https://img.shields.io/badge/release%20level-preview-yellow.svg?style=flat)](https://cloud.google.com/terms/launch-stages)

From b3e8219c1e463dec4a44f1b4a5c75d437ff39325 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sofisl <55454395+sofisl@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:02:31 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update owlbot.py

---
 owlbot.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/owlbot.py b/owlbot.py
index 49a4ffa89..e0e045654 100644
--- a/owlbot.py
+++ b/owlbot.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
   '.github/workflows/ci.yaml',
   '.nycrc',
   '.prettierignore',
+  'README.md'
 ])
 
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