Investigate automating the creation of the Howto index

The following discussion from !1846 (merged) should be addressed:

The only idea I have is following a pattern we have elsewhere where we:

  • Write a Rake task or similar to take a template and populate it with information based on a heuristic (like things in howto).
  • Commit the result (so the folks can read it in raw markdown without any post-processing).
  • Have some processing step in the docs pipeline that checks that the Howto index isn't out-of-date (with an error telling you what to run).

Some examples: