Merge branch 'master' into codex/update-model.py-for-structured-artif…

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README.md

@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ document-clusterer cluster \
 On Windows, you can run the same commands in PowerShell. If `document-clusterer` is not on your `PATH`, use the module form instead:
 
 ```powershell
-python -m document_clusterer.cli clean --stories-dir data\sample --output data\sample_cleaned.json
 python -m document_clusterer.cli clean --stories-dir data\\sample --output data\\sample.json
 python -m document_clusterer.cli cluster --input-file data\\sample_cleaned.json --stories-dir data\\sample --output-dir clusteredDocuments\\sample
 ```

document_clusterer/model.py

@@ -42,10 +42,7 @@ def env_int(var_name: str, default: int) -> int:
 
 def _ensure_file_exists(path: Path, description: str) -> None:
     if not path.exists():
-        raise FileNotFoundError(
-            f"{description} does not exist: {path.resolve()} (cwd: {Path.cwd()}) "
-            "If you are using the sample data, run the clean step to generate it."
-        )
+
     if not path.is_file():
         raise ValueError(f"{description} is not a file: {path}")