  We revisit the minimal tension ($k=1$) string theory on
$\text{AdS}_3\times\text{S}^3\times\mathbb{T}^4$. We propose a new free-field
description of the worldsheet theory and show how localization of string
amplitudes emerges from the path integral. We exemplify our proposal by
reproducing the worldsheet partition function of the $\mathfrak{psu}(1,1|2)_1$
WZW model and providing explicit expressions for spectrally-flowed vertex
operators and DDF operators. We compute string correlators in the path integral
formalism and obtain a precise tree-level match with correlation functions of
the boundary symmetric orbifold.
