chore: exclude orphan samples doc files from TOC

Author: plamut

docs/conf.py

@@ -90,7 +90,12 @@
 
 # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
-exclude_patterns = ["_build"]
+exclude_patterns = [
+    "_build",
+    "samples/AUTHORING_GUIDE.md",
+    "samples/CONTRIBUTING.md",
+    "samples/snippets/README.rst",
+]
 
 # The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
 # documents.