Hi @JakeCham,
jQuery and utils are the dependencies that AEM provides. You can either add them in the dependencies section or in the embedded section as per your requirement.
You can go and check the files and their functionalities below
- /libs/clientlibs/granite/utils
- /libs/clientlibs/granite/jquery
If you do not want them, you can remove them as they are the dependencies, but I doubt the same case with utils as they have multiple util functions. Please test thoroughly once they are removed.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Kiran Vedantam.