Various examples are directed to systems and methods for searching application rules. A rule management system may access application rule data describing a first application rule and generate a first textual summary of the first application rule. The rule management system may encode the first textual summary to generate a first rule vector. The rule management system may receive a application rule query. The application rule query may include a query description. The rule management system may encode the query description to generate a first query vector and select the first application rule as responsive to the application rule query using the first rule vector and the first query vector. The rule management system may return the first application rule in response to the application rule query.