*Open Civic Utilities are modular, interoperable tools and protocols that enable the core functions of social organisms. These utilities support communities in collectively sensing their environments, making decisions, allocating resources, coordinating action, and learning from experience. They are designed to be forkable, composable, and governance-agnostic, serving as the operational layer that allows Open Civic Systems to function as living, adaptive organisms.* ## Composition Open civic utilities enable functional capacities for open civic systems, the self-organizing groups that emerge to meet shared needs and steward common-pool resources. As functional units, open civic utilities can be swapped interchangeably so long as each core capacity is enabled and supported. The functional capacity categories used to map open civic utilities is based on a modified OODA loop (observe, orient, decide, act), a framework developed for distributed collective intelligence in relationship to one’s environment. This framework is adapted here to represent the core capacities of self-organizing groups as they collectively sense their environment and take collective actions.