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 See `lua/lsp.lua` for the commented out MasonInstall commands
 
+## Treesitter dependencies
+
+You need to make sure treesitter dependencies are installed. You will get silent errors if they are missing
+(including tree-sitter-cli, which is not optional as some outdated sources say). You can check these with:
+
+```
+:checkhealth nvim-treesitter
+```
+
+tree-sitter-cli can be donwloaded from the [releases](https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/releases/latest)
+
 ## Treesitter parsers
 
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